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Hausa  

Definition

  • Hausa is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, mainly within the northern half of Nigeria and the southern half of Niger, and with significant minorities in Chad, Benin and Cameroon. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa’s modern official orthography is a Latin-based alphabet called boko. Hausa has also been written in Ajami, an Arabic alphabet.

Identifier

  • HAU

Notation

  • HA
  • ha
  • hau

In other languages

  • хауса

    Bulgarian

  • hausa

    Croatian

  • hauština

    Czech

  • hausa

    Danish

  • Hausa

    Dutch

  • hausa

    Estonian

  • hausa

    Finnish

  • haoussa

    French

  • hausa
  • Haussa

    German

  • χάουσα

    Greek

  • Harshen Hausa

    Hausa

  • هَرْشَن هَوْسَ
  • hausza

    Hungarian

  • Hásais

    Irish

  • hausa

    Italian

  • hausu valoda

    Latvian

  • hausų

    Lithuanian

  • Hausa

    Maltese

  • hausa

    Polish

  • haúça

    Portuguese

  • hausa

    Romanian

  • hauština

    Slovak

  • havščina

    Slovenian

  • hausa

    Spanish

  • hausa

    Swedish

  • хауза

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HAU

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