1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Nigeria
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
sannu
3.2 Thank You
gode ku
3.3 How Are You?
yaya dai
3.4 Good Night
mai kyau dare
3.5 Good Evening
barka da yamma
3.6 Good Afternoon
barka da rana
3.7 Good Morning
mai kyau safe
3.8 Please
Don Allah
3.9 Sorry
yi hakuri
3.10 Bye
sai anjima
3.11 I Love You
Ina son ku
3.12 Excuse Me
gafara dai
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gaananci
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ghana
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Niger
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daragaram
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Niger
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
Rank: 28 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.52 %
Rank: 28 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
35.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
5.3.4 French Name
haoussa
5.3.5 German Name
Haussa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
14
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Chadic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Hausa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ha
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
hau
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
hau
7.3 ISO 639 3
hau
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
haus1257
7.6 Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional