Countries
Fiji, India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Urdu
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4444
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3332
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
sannu
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
gode ku
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
yaya dai
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
barka da rana
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
mai kyau safe
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Don Allah
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
yi hakuri
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
sai anjima
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Ghana
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Niger
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Niger
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
380.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
4.70 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
हिन्दी
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
hindi
haoussa
German Name
Hindi
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
7th Century
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Hausa
Language Position
534
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
hau
ISO 639 2/B
hin
hau
ISO 639 3
hin
hau
ISO 639 6
hins
hau
Glottocode
hind1269
haus1257
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional