Countries
Nigeria
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4428
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3220
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
sannu
您好
Thank You
gode ku
谢谢
How Are You?
yaya dai
你好吗?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
晚安
Good Evening
barka da yamma
晚上好
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
下午好
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
早上好
Please
Don Allah
请
Sorry
yi hakuri
遗憾
Bye
sai anjima
再见
I Love You
Ina son ku
我爱你
Excuse Me
gafara dai
原谅我
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Ghana
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Niger
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Niger
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
50.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
haoussa
cantonais
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Han Chinese
Origin
14
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ha
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
yue
ISO 639 2/B
hau
yue
ISO 639 3
hau
No data available
ISO 639 6
hau
yue
Glottocode
haus1257
cant1236
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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