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Language code: ha

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ha

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The table below provides technical details for the Hausa language, designated by the ha code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ha

Name

Official

Hausa

Native

هَوُسَ

Family
Chadic
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Kano (Central) HausaWestern HausaEastern Hausa
Related languages
BoleNgizimBadeGoemaiRon
Key facts
Largest member of the Chadic branch of Afro-AsiaticWidely used as a trade and media lingua franca across West AfricaWritten with both a Latin orthography (Boko) and an Arabic-based script (Ajami)Has a three-level tonal system that distinguishes lexical and grammatical meaningModern Standard Hausa is based primarily on the Kano dialect
Sample phrase

Sannu, yaya kake?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Hausa belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family, specifically to the Chadic subgroup. It is recognized as a national language in Niger and Nigeria, and is also spoken in Benin. Hausa is written using the Latin script (Boko alphabet) and the Arabic script (Ajami). It is estimated that there are more than 54 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Nigeria

39M

Niger

13M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hausa speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ha-GH – Hausa (Ghana)

ha-NE – Hausa (Niger)

ha-NG – Hausa (Nigeria)

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