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Preferred term

hauHausa  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Hausa (Yaren Hausa – language of the Hausa [people]) is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people. Hausa is one of Africa's largest spoken languages after Arabic, French, English, Portuguese and Swahili.

Entry terms

  • Hausa language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ha

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • hau

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • hau

ISO 639-3 code

  • hau

Notation

  • hau

In other languages

  • haoussa

    French

  • Haoussa
  • Hausa

    German

  • haussa

    Italian

  • Lingua hausa
  • Portuguese

  • haúça
  • Língua haúça
  • hausa

    Spanish

  • Idioma hausa

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hau

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