Countries
Nigeria
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
India, Nepal
Second Language
Nigeria
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4447
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3222
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
pranam
Thank You
gode ku
dhanyabad
How Are You?
yaya dai
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
Śubharātri
Good Evening
barka da yamma
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
Suprabhaat
Please
Don Allah
kripaya
Sorry
yi hakuri
maf karai
Bye
sai anjima
Alavidā
I Love You
Ina son ku
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
gafara dai
kripaya
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nepal
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Niger
North India
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Khortha
Where They Speak
Niger
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
50.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
haoussa
maithili
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Maithili
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Maithil
Origin
14
14th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Maithili
Language Position
3440
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
mai
ISO 639 2/B
hau
mai
ISO 639 3
hau
mai
ISO 639 6
hau
mai
Glottocode
haus1257
mait1250
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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