1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.5 National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Burundi, Gambia
3.2 Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.4 Speaking Continents
3.6 Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.9 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
3.11 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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
3.13 Similar To
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Kinyarwanda Language
3.15 Derived From
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4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
6.9 Phonology
6.9.1 How Many Vowels
6.10.1 How Many Consonants
1.3 Scripts
1.4 Writing Direction
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1.5 Hard to Learn
1.5.1 Language Levels
2.3.1 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
4.4 Good Night
mai kyau dare
Ijoro ryiza
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
4.7 Good Morning
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
Ghana
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
5.3 Dialect 2
5.3.1 Where They Speak
5.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA990,000.00
700
80000000
1.6 Dialect 3
1.7.1 Where They Speak
1.7.2 How Many People Speak
NA153,000.00
1400
96000000
1.8 Total No. Of Dialects
6 How Many People Speak
6.1 How Many People Speak?
50.00 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
7.9 Speaking Population
7.14 Native Speakers
35.00 million8.80 million
0.13
873
1.2.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.3 Native Name
4.3.4 Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Not Available
4.3.5 French Name
4.3.6 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
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Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
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5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.5.3 Signed Forms
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5.6 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
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6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology