Hausa language Hausa Harshen Hausa َﺱْﻮَﻫ ﻦَﺷْﺮَﻫ Native to Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, Sudan, Togo Region across the Sahel as a language of trade Ethnici ty Hausa people Native speak ers 34 million (2007)[1] 18 million as a second language[2] Langu age family Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Hausa–Gwandara (A.1) Hausa Writin g syste m Latin (Boko alphabet) Arabic (ajami) Hausa Braille Language codes ISO 639-1 ha ISO 639-2 hau ISO 639-3 hau Lingua sphere 19-HAA-b Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa is spoken This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/)[3] (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 34 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 52 million people.[4] Classification Main article: Afroasiatic languages Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Geographic distribution Map showing the linguistic groups of Nigeria in 1979 Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger, in the north of Nigeria and Chad, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte dIvoire etc.), Central Africa (Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea) and northwestern Sudan, particularly amongst Muslims. Radio stations like BBC, Radio France Internationale, China Radio International, Voice of Russia, Voice of America , Deutsche Welle, and IRIB broadcast in Hausa. It is taught at universities in Africa and around the world. The language is the most commonly spoken language in Nigeria, but unlike Yoruba and Igbo, it is also widely spoken outside Nigeria, especially in Niger Republic, Ghana, Cameroon & Sudan.
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