1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
2.4 Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
2.6 Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
2.8 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
2.9 Similar To
Not Available
Amharic and Hebrew
2.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
3.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
mai kyau dare
تصبح على خير
6.5 Good Evening
barka da yamma
مساء الخير
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Ghana
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
7.5.1 Where They Speak
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
50.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
9.4 Native Speakers
35.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million246.00 million
0.01
400
9.5.3 Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
(al arabiya) العربية
9.5.4 Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
9.5.5 French Name
9.5.6 German Name
9.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
9.7 Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Arabs
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
10.2.2 Subgroup
10.2.3 Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
10.3.3 Standard Forms
Hausa
Modern Standard Arabic
10.3.5 Language Position
12.7.3 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic