Countries
Nigeria
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
Halo
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
Don Allah
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
maaf
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
haoussa
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
14
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Hausa and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Indonesian language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Hausa vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.