Countries
Nigeria
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
India
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Don Allah
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
haoussa
  
hindi
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
14
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hausa and Hindi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Hausa and Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Hindi language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Hindi Difficulty
The Hausa vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa Alphabets and Hindi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Hausa and Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.