Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3632
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
sannu
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
gode ku
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
yaya dai
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
barka da rana
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
mai kyau safe
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Don Allah
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
yi hakuri
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
sai anjima
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Not present
Gaananci
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
140,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
-
Niger
How Many People Speak
140,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Daragaram
Where They Speak
-
Niger
How Many People Speak
140,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
020
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
sanskrit
haoussa
German Name
Sanskrit
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
2000 B.C.
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Hausa
Language Position
2334
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
hau
ISO 639 2/B
san
hau
ISO 639 3
san
hau
ISO 639 6
san
hau
Glottocode
sans1269
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional