ISO 639-3 · hauhau
Afroasiatic family
Hausa
Hausa is a language of the West Chadic A branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 43.9 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Chadic language native to the Hausa people”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
hau- ISO 639-1
ha- Glottocode
haus1257- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 11.00, 8.00
- Wikipedia
- 124 language editions
43.9 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
3scripts
4levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Hausa |
|---|---|
| Also called | Hausa language |
| L1 speakers | 43,900,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Latin script, Arabic script, Hausa Braille |
| Official in | Niger |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Hausa
The branches above Hausa, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Niger
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