Countries
Nigeria
  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Spain
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
hola
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
Gracias
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
Cómo estás?
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
Buenas Noches
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
Bonne soirée
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Buenas Tardes
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
Buenos Días
  
Please
Don Allah
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
triste
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
adiós
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Te Quiero
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
Discúlpeme
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Mexican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Mexico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Cuban Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Cuba
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Puerto Rico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
489.00 million
  
3
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
410.00 million
  
2
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
89.50 million
  
9
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Español
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
French Name
haoussa
  
espagnol; castillan
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Spanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
210 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
es
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
spa
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
spa
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
spa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
stan1288
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
51-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic