Languages

Hausa

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Hausa." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hausa.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Hausa. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hausa

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-hausa,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Hausa},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hausa},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Hausa is a Chadic language spoken by over 94.5 million people in West Africa, primarily by the Hausa people in Niger, where it is the sole official language having replaced French in 2025, and in Nigeria.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

hau 1

Speaker Count

94,000,000 1

Ethnologue total figure, 2021-2024.

Region

West Africa 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Afro-Asiatic

Source Wikipedia: Hausa Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Hausa Language

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Hausa ... is a Chadic language spoken by over 94.5 million people in West Africa, primarily by the Hausa people in Niger (where it is the sole official language, having replaced French in 2025) and Nigeria.

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