Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Spain
  
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Nigeria
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
sannu
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
gode ku
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
yaya dai
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
mai kyau dare
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
barka da yamma
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
barka da rana
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
mai kyau safe
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Don Allah
  
Sorry
triste
  
yi hakuri
  
Bye
adiós
  
sai anjima
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Ina son ku
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
gafara dai
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Gaananci
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Kurhwayanci
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Daragaram
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
50.00 million
  
28
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
35.00 million
  
27
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Español
  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
haoussa
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Haussa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Origin
210 BC
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Chadic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Hausa
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
ha
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
hau
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
hau
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
hau
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
haus1257
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
19-HAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional