Countries
Nigeria
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Myanmar
Second Language
Nigeria
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3233
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
gode ku
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
yaya dai
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Don Allah
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
yi hakuri
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
sai anjima
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ina son ku
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Niger
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Intha
Where They Speak
Niger
Burma
How Many People Speak
50.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.52 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
35.00 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
haoussa
birman
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Bamar people
Origin
14
1113 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Hausa
Modern Burmese
Language Position
3443
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
mya
ISO 639 2/B
hau
bur
ISO 639 3
hau
mya
ISO 639 6
hau
mya
Glottocode
haus1257
sout3159
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
Analytic, Isolating