Language · Afro-Asiatic
Hausa
Listed in 5 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 43 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin, Arabic
Place in the family tree
- Afro-Asiatic
- Chadic
- West Chadic
- West Chadic A
- West Chadic A.1
- Hausa
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- National 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 3
National
-
Niger
41%
11 million
The only national language under the 2025 Charter of Refoundation.
Widely used
-
Nigeria
13%
31 million
Predominant in the north; the lingua franca of northern Nigeria.