Countries
Nigeria
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Japan
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4499
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3214
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
gode ku
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
yaya dai
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Don Allah
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
yi hakuri
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
sai anjima
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ina son ku
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Ghana
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Hakata
Where They Speak
Niger
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Kansai
Where They Speak
Niger
kansai
How Many People Speak
50.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2031
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
日本語
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Nihongo
French Name
haoussa
japonais
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
14
1185
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Hausa
Japanese
Language Position
348
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
hau
jpn
ISO 639 3
hau
jpn
ISO 639 6
hau
jpn
Glottocode
haus1257
nucl1643
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic