Countries
Nigeria
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
Hai
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Don Allah
  
sila
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
maaf
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
haoussa
  
malais
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Hausa and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Malaysian language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Hausa vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.