Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Nigeria
National Language
China, Taiwan
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
gode ku
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
yaya dai
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
barka da rana
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
mai kyau safe
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Don Allah
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
yi hakuri
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
sai anjima
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Gaananci
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Ghana
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Niger
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Niger
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
chinois
haoussa
German Name
Chinesisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Han
Hausa–Fulani people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Hausa
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sini1245
haus1257
Linguasphere
79-AAA
19-HAA-b
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
Chinese 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 Chinese and Hausa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Hausa language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Hausa word for "Thank You" is gode ku. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Hausa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Hausa Difficulty
The Chinese vs Hausa difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Hausa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Hausa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Hausa time required is 44 weeks.