Hausa
  • هَرْشَن هَوْسَ
  • Harshen/Halshen Hausa
Spoken in: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Benin, and Ghana 
Region: West Africa
Total speakers: Templeeti:Sigfig million (native)
Language family: Tafrusyawit
 Chadic
  West Chadic
   Hausa–Gwandara (A.1)
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Language codes
ISO 639-1: ha
ISO 639-2: hau
ISO 639-3: hau 
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Templeeti:Infobox Language/IPA

Hausa
  • هَرْشَن هَوْسَ
  • Harshen/Halshen Hausa
Native to Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Benin, and Ghana
Region West Africa
Ethnicity Hausa /Hausawa
Speakers 50 million (native) (2019-2021)[1]

45 million (as a second language) (2019–2021)[2][3]
Official status
Official language in
Recognised minority

language in
Language codes
ISO 639-1 ha
ISO 639-2 hau
ISO 639-3 hau
Glottolog haus1257
Linguasphere 19-HAA-b
Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa people are based. Hausa tribes are to the north.
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Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/; [1] Harshen / Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشَن هَوْسَ) bụ asụsụ Chadic nke ndị Hausa na Chad na-asụ, n'ime ọkara ùgwù ma karịsịa n'ime ọkara ndịda nke Naịjirịa, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin na ọkara ndịda nke Niger, na ndị ka nta na Sudan na Ivory Coast.[4][5]

Nchịkọta

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Hausa so n'asụsụ ọdịda Chadic nke ngalaba otu asụsụ Chadic, nke n'aka nke ya bụ akụkụ nke ezinụlọ asụsụ Afroasiatic.[6]

Asụsụ

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Hausa na-egosiputa otu ihe dị ukwuu n'ebe ọ bụla a na-asụ ya.[7] Otú ọ dị, ndị ọkà mmụta asụsụ achọpụtala mpaghara asụsụ nwere ụyọkọ njirimara nke ọ bụla.[8]

Asụsụ ọdịnala

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Asụsụ ndị Hausa nke Ọwụwa Anyanwụ gụnyere Dauranci na Daura, Kananci na Kano, Bausanci na Bauchi, Gudduranci na Katagum Misau na akụkụ nke Borno, na Hadejanci na Hadejiya.[9]

  1. Hausa at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
  2. Hausa language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. Hausa language at Ethnologue (20th ed., 2017)
  4. Wolff. Hausa language (en). Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved on 2020-10-14.
  5. Spread of the Hausa Language (en). Worldmapper. Retrieved on 2020-10-14.
  6. Chadic languages | Britannica (en). www.britannica.com. Retrieved on 2022-02-15.
  7. Department (1964). U.S. Army Area Handbook for Nigeria. Second Edition, March 1964 (in en). U.S. Government Printing Office. 
  8. Hausa Language Variation and Dialects (en-US). African Languages at UCLA. Retrieved on 2020-10-14.
  9. The Hausa Language – Department of African Studies (en). www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved on 2020-10-14.