Countries
Nigeria
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Nigeria
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4424
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3217
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
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
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
gode ku
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
yaya dai
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Don Allah
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
yi hakuri
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
sai anjima
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Ina son ku
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Ghana
Greece
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Griko
Where They Speak
Niger
Italy
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Niger
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
50.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2025
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
haoussa
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
14
1500 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Hausa
Modern Greek
Language Position
3474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
ell
ISO 639 2/B
hau
gre
ISO 639 3
hau
ell
ISO 639 6
hau
ells
Glottocode
haus1257
gree1276
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic