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Hausa language


Name	Hausa
Nativename	هَوْسَ
Familycolor	Afro-Asiatic
States	Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Ghana Niger Nigeria Sudan Togo
Speakers	25 million as a first language, 18 million as a second language
Ethnicity	Hausa people
Script	Latin, Arabic
Fam2	Chadic
Fam3	West Chadic
Fam4	West Chadic A
Fam5	Hausa � Gwandara (A.1)
Iso1	ha\|iso2=hau\|iso3=hau
Notice	IPA

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Hausa 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.

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