Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Nigeria
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
yaya dai
Good Night
تصبح على خير
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
مساء الخير
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
barka da rana
Good Morning
صباح الخير
mai kyau safe
I Love You
أحبك
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
اعذرني
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Ghana
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Sudan
Niger
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Niger
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
arabe
haoussa
German Name
Arabisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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Ethnicity
Arabs
Hausa–Fulani people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Branch
North Arabic
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Hausa
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
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Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
arab1395
haus1257
Linguasphere
12-AAC
19-HAA-b
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Arabic and Hausa Speaking population
Arabic and Hausa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Hausa languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Hausa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Hausa on Arabic vs Hausa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Hausa Language Codes
Arabic and Hausa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Hausa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.