Hausa

Hausa is written in the Latin script, spoken by about 37.4M people across 3 regions.

Script

Language tag

ha-Latn

Speakers

37.4M

Status

Living

Sample text

Duk

Duk ’yan’adan ana haihuwarsu ne a matsayin

Duk ’yan’adan ana haihuwarsu ne a matsayin ’yantattun ’ya’ya, kuma

Alphabet (57)

Auxiliary characters (40)

Combining marks (4)

◌̃U+0303 ◌̀U+0300 ◌́U+0301 ◌̂U+0302

Punctuation (19)

-U+002D ,U+002C ;U+003B :U+003A !U+0021 ?U+003F .U+002E 'U+0027 ‘U+2018 ’U+2019 "U+0022 “U+201C ”U+201D (U+0028 )U+0029 [U+005B ]U+005D {U+007B }U+007D

Unicode blocks used

C0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)Latin Extended-B IPA Extensions Spacing Modifier Letters Combining Diacritical Marks General Punctuation

Where it's spoken

Ghana, Niger, Nigeria

Notes

Garba 1982 gives y’ as a letter but in practice ’y or ƴ are used in Nigeria. Note that ƴ is the official letter in Niger.

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