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Countries

Countries
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
44 24

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
32 22

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 14

Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci

Where They Speak
Niger

How Many People Speak
150,000,000.00 3

Dialect 3
Daragaram

Where They Speak
Niger

How Many People Speak
50.00 79

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
50.00 million 28

Speaking Population
0.52 % 30

Native Speakers
35.00 million 27

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million 34

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
14

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup
Chadic

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Hausa

Language Position
34 32

Signed Forms
Signed Hausa

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ha

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

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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.

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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.

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