Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa has also been written in ajami, an Arabic alphabet, since the early 17th century. Hausa is also a lingua franca fornon-native speakers in most of Northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and is additionally used as a trade language across West Africa
Hausa
Hausa translation services
Classification
Afro-Asiatic > Chadic
Script
Roman, Arabic
Text direction
Left-to-right (right-to-left in Arabic script)
Speakers
50 million (native)
Other names
Official language
Nigeria, Niger
Interesting Fact
With approximately 50 million first-language speakers, Hausa has the most first-language speakers than any other African language.
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