Countries
Nigeria
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
South Africa
Second Language
Nigeria
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3217
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
sannu
hallo
Thank You
gode ku
Dankie
How Are You?
yaya dai
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
mai kyau dare
goeie nag
Good Evening
barka da yamma
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Goeie middag
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
goeie more
Please
Don Allah
asseblief
Sorry
yi hakuri
jammer
Bye
sai anjima
Totsiens
I Love You
Ina son ku
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
gafara dai
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Niger
-
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Niger
Namibia
How Many People Speak
50.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Cape Dutch
French Name
haoussa
afrikaans
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Afrikaners
Origin
14
17th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
3423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
afr
ISO 639 2/B
hau
afr
ISO 639 3
hau
afr
ISO 639 6
hau
afrs
Glottocode
haus1257
afri1274
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic