Countries
Nigeria
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Nigeria
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3223
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
gode ku
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
yaya dai
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Don Allah
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
yi hakuri
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
sai anjima
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ina son ku
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Wu
Where They Speak
Niger
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Yue
Where They Speak
Niger
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
50.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
haoussa
chinois
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Han
Origin
14
1250 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Chinese
Language Position
341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
zho
ISO 639 2/B
hau
chi
ISO 639 3
hau
zho
ISO 639 6
hau
zho
Glottocode
haus1257
sini1245
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating