Countries
Nigeria
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4421
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3219
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
Bwakeye
Thank You
gode ku
Urakoze
How Are You?
yaya dai
Urakomeye?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
barka da yamma
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
Mwaramutse
Please
Don Allah
Ndagusavye
Sorry
yi hakuri
Ndasubiza
Bye
sai anjima
N’agasaga
I Love You
Ina son ku
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
gafara dai
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Ghana
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Ha
Where They Speak
Niger
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Shubi
Where They Speak
Niger
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
50.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
haoussa
rundi
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
14
1500
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Kirundi
Language Position
3486
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ha
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
run
ISO 639 2/B
hau
run
ISO 639 3
hau
run
ISO 639 6
hau
run
Glottocode
haus1257
rund1242
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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