Countries
Nigeria
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Nepal
Second Language
Nigeria
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3236
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, 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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
gode ku
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
yaya dai
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Good afternoon
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Don Allah
कृपया
Sorry
yi hakuri
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
sai anjima
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ina son ku
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Doteli
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nepal
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Niger
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Niger
Nepal
How Many People Speak
50.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
haoussa
népalais
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
14
19 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Hausa
Nepali
Language Position
3459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ha
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
nep
ISO 639 2/B
hau
nep
ISO 639 3
hau
npi
ISO 639 6
hau
nep
Glottocode
haus1257
nepa1254
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative