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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
South Africa

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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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

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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

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Dutch Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1215
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3217
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gaananci
Kaapse Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Ghana
-

How Many People Speak

50,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kurhwayanci
Oranjeriverafrikaans

Where They Speak

Niger
-

How Many People Speak

150,000,000.007,700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Daragaram
Baster Afrikaans

Where They Speak

Niger
Namibia

How Many People Speak

50.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

203
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

50.00 million19.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.52 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

35.00 million7.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million10.30 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

Hausa and Afrikaans Alphabets

Hausa and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Hausa and Afrikaans. In Hausa Alphabets there are 44 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Hausa and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Hausa and Afrikaans languages. The Hausa phonology consist Hausa vowels and Hausa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Hausa greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Hausa and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Hausa and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Hausa and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Hausa and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Hausa are spoken in different Hausa Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Hausa vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Hausa dialects include: Gaananci, Kurhwayanci. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Hausa and Afrikaans Speaking population

Hausa and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hausa and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Hausa and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is 0.03 %. 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 Hausa and Afrikaans on Hausa vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hausa and Afrikaans Language Codes

Hausa and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hausa and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.