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Countries

Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Gambia, Nigeria

Second Language

Nigeria

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Yoruba and Igbo Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 24 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 22 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

sannu

Thank You

gode ku

How Are You?

yaya dai

Good Night

mai kyau dare

Good Evening

barka da yamma

Good Afternoon

barka da rana

Good Morning

mai kyau safe

Please

Don Allah

Sorry

yi hakuri

Bye

sai anjima

I Love You

Ina son ku

Excuse Me

gafara dai

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gaananci

Where They Speak

Ghana

How Many People Speak

50,000,000.00

Rank: 14 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Kurhwayanci

Where They Speak

Niger

How Many People Speak

150,000,000.00

Rank: 3 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Daragaram

Where They Speak

Niger

How Many People Speak

50.00

Rank: 79 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

50.00 million

Rank: 28 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.52 %

Rank: 30 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

35.00 million

Rank: 27 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million

Rank: 34 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)

Alternative Names

Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa

French Name

haoussa

German Name

Haussa-Sprache

Pronunciation

[hàʊsà]

Ethnicity

Hausa–Fulani people

History

Origin

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Chadic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Hausa

Language Position

Rank: 32 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Hausa

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hau

ISO 639 2/B

hau

ISO 639 3

hau

ISO 639 6

hau

Glottocode

haus1257

Linguasphere

19-HAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Hausa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hausa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hausa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hausa. Hausa phonology gives Hausa vowels and Hausa consonants. There are 12 vowels and 32 consonants in Hausa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hausa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hausa language is given in detail in this section.

All Hausa countries

Want to explore all Hausa countries? About Hausa language serves you with all Hausa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hausa as official language are called as Hausa countries.

Countries that use Hausa as their National Language are: Gambia, Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Hausa as second language are: Nigeria.

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Learn Hausa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hausa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hausa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hausa language.Learn Hausa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: sannu
Thank you: gode ku
Good Morning: mai kyau safe
Good Evening: barka da yamma
Good Afternoon: barka da rana

All Hausa Language Codes

Get to know all Hausa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hausa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.