Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nigeria
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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
Merhaba
  
sannu
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
gode ku
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
yaya dai
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
mai kyau dare
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
barka da yamma
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
barka da rana
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
mai kyau safe
  
Please
lütfen
  
Don Allah
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
yi hakuri
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
sai anjima
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Ina son ku
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
gafara dai
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Gaananci
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Kurhwayanci
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Daragaram
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
50.00 million
  
28
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
35.00 million
  
27
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Türkçe
  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
French Name
turc
  
haoussa
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Haussa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
14
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Chadic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Hausa
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ha
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
hau
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
hau
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
hau
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
haus1257
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
19-HAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Turkish and Hausa 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 Turkish and Hausa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Hausa language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Hausa word for "Thank You" is gode ku. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Hausa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Hausa Difficulty
The Turkish vs Hausa difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Hausa 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 Turkish and Hausa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Hausa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Hausa time required is 44 weeks.