Language Info

Hausa written in Arabic 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 Latin 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 2,613,538 people across 3 countries.

    Nigeria

    1,906,320 people
    1.00% literate in Hausa

    Sudan

    672,226 people
    1.80% literate in Hausa

    Cameroon

    34,992 people
    0.14% literate in Hausa

    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