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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Gambia, Nigeria
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Nigeria
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
South Africa

Regulated By

-
-

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4426
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3221
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

57
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

sannu
Hello

Thank You

gode ku
Thank you

How Are You?

yaya dai
How are you?

Good Night

mai kyau dare
Good Night

Good Evening

barka da yamma
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

barka da rana
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

mai kyau safe
Good Morning

Please

Don Allah
Please

Sorry

yi hakuri
Sorry

Bye

sai anjima
Bye

I Love You

Ina son ku
I love you

Excuse Me

gafara dai
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gaananci
American English

Where They Speak

Ghana
United States of America

How Many People Speak

50,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kurhwayanci
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Niger
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

150,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Daragaram
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Niger
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

50.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

20188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

50.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.52 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

35.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
English

Alternative Names

Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
English

French Name

haoussa
anglais

German Name

Haussa-Sprache
Englisch

Pronunciation

[hàʊsà]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Hausa–Fulani people
English people

History

Origin

14
5th Century AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Chadic
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Hausa
Standard English

Language Position

343
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Hausa
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ha
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hau
eng

ISO 639 2/B

hau
eng

ISO 639 3

hau
eng

ISO 639 6

hau
engs

Glottocode

haus1257
stan1293

Linguasphere

19-HAA-b
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Hausa and English Alphabets

Hausa and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Hausa and English. In Hausa Alphabets there are 44 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Hausa and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Hausa and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Hausa and English are Most Spoken Languages.

All Hausa and English 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 English dialects. Various dialects of Hausa and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Hausa are spoken in different Hausa Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Hausa vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Hausa dialects include: Gaananci, Kurhwayanci. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Hausa and English Speaking population

Hausa and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hausa and English languages can be compared. The total count of Hausa and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Hausa vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hausa and English Language Codes

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