What is Hausa language?
{{Infobox language | name = Hausa | nativename = Harshen/Halshen Hausa, {{script|Arab|هَرْشَن هَوْسَ}} | states = [[Niger]] and [[Nigeria]] | region = [[West Africa]] | ethnicity = [[Hausa people|Hausa]] | speakers = {{sigfig|75|1}} million<!--only one sig fig for Niger--> | date = 2015&ndash;2016 | ref = e21 | speakers2 = 20 million as a [[second language]] (no date)<ref>{{e17|hau}}</ref><ref name=e20>{{Ethnologue20|hau}}</ref> | familycolor = Afro-Asiatic | fam2 = [[Chadic languages|Chadic]] | fam3 = [[West Chadic languages|West Chadic]] | fam4 = [[Hausa–Gwandara languages|Hausa–Gwandara (A.1)]] | script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Boko alphabet]])<br/>[[Arabic script|Arabic]] ([[Ajami script|Ajami]])<br/>[[Hausa Braille]] | nation = {{NIG}} ([[National language|national status]])<br/>{{NGA}} ([[National language|national status]])<br/>{{GHA}} ([[National language|national status]]) | minority = | iso1 = ha | iso2 = hau | iso3 = hau | glotto = haus1257 | glottorefname = Hausa | lingua = 19-HAA-b | notice = IPA | map = Hausa_language_map.png | mapcaption = Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa people are based }} '''Hausa''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|aʊ|s|ə}};{{sfnp|Bauer|2007|p=?}} ''Harshen''/''Halshen Hausa'') is a [[Chadic languages|Chadic language]]. It was first spoken in Southern [[Niger]] and Northern [[Nigeria]]. Now many other people in [[West Africa]] speak it. It is the most widely spoken Chadic language, with around 47 million people speaking it as a first language.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/HAU|accessdate=5 June 2020|title=Hausa}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{InterWiki|code=ha}} {{authority control}} [[Category:West Chadic languages]] [[Category:Languages of Niger]] [[Category:Languages of Nigeria]] {{stub}}