Language Info

Hausa written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Alternate Scripts for Hausa

  • Hausa can also be written using the Arabic script

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Hausa uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Hausa is 32,911,982 people across 3 countries.

Nigeria

24,782,160 people
13.00% literate in Hausa

Niger

7,890,573 people
41.00% literate in Hausa

Ghana

239,249 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters