Countries
Nigeria
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
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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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4444
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1217
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3227
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
gode ku
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
yaya dai
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
Hach ch'i
Please
Don Allah
مهربانی کر
Sorry
yi hakuri
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
sai anjima
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
Ina son ku
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
gafara dai
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Ghana
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Poguli
Where They Speak
Niger
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Rambani
Where They Speak
Niger
India
How Many People Speak
50.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.52 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
35.00 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
haoussa
kashmiri
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
14
12th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Kashmiri
Language Position
3423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
kas
ISO 639 2/B
hau
kas
ISO 639 3
hau
kas
ISO 639 6
hau
kas
Glottocode
haus1257
kash1277
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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