Countries
Nigeria
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
India
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4444
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3233
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
gode ku
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
yaya dai
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Don Allah
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
yi hakuri
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
sai anjima
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ina son ku
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Ghana
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Marwari
Where They Speak
Niger
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Niger
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
50.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
haoussa
hindi
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Hindustani people
Origin
14
7th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Hindi
Language Position
345
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
hin
ISO 639 2/B
hau
hin
ISO 639 3
hau
hin
ISO 639 6
hau
hins
Glottocode
haus1257
hind1269
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic