Hausa

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Hausa is a major Chadic language spoken primarily in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, serving as a widespread lingua franca across West Africa.

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AI-generated illustration of Hausa

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of Hausa (Hausa is a major Chadic language spoken primarily in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, serving as a widespread lingua franca across West Africa.)

All labels observed (14)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Chadic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedEthnicGroup Hausa people ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
hasDialects Guddiri Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa

Kano Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa

Sokoto Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa

Zazzagi Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
hasGenderDistinction grammatical gender ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic ⓘ
English ⓘ
Kanuri ⓘ
Tuareg languages ⓘ
linked to: Berber languages
hasNounClasses no productive noun class system ⓘ
hasPhonemicTone true ⓘ
hasStandardVariety Standard Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
isLinguaFrancaIn Northern Nigeria ⓘ
Southern Niger ⓘ
linked to: Niger

parts of West Africa ⓘ
ISO639-1Code ha ⓘ
ISO639-2Code hau ⓘ
ISO639-3Code hau ⓘ
languageBranch Chadic ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic ⓘ
majorReligionOfSpeakers Islam ⓘ
nativeTo Northern Nigeria ⓘ
Southern Niger ⓘ
linked to: Niger
primaryWordOrder SVO ⓘ
region Sahel ⓘ
Savanna belt of West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn Benin ⓘ
Cameroon ⓘ
Chad ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ
Niger ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
Togo ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ
subfamily West Chadic ⓘ
usedInEducation medium of instruction in parts of Nigeria ⓘ
usedInMedia radio broadcasting in West Africa ⓘ
television broadcasting in West Africa ⓘ
usedInReligion Islamic preaching in West Africa ⓘ
usesAlphabet Ajami script ⓘ
linked to: Perso-Arabic script

Boko alphabet ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right (Latin script) ⓘ
right-to-left (Ajami script) ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (373)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arabic → influencedLanguage → Hausa ⓘ
Nigeria → ethnicGroup → Hausa ⓘ
Nigeria → nationalLanguage → Hausa ⓘ
Hausa → hasDialects → Kano Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Hausa → hasDialects → Sokoto Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Hausa → hasDialects → Guddiri Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Hausa → hasDialects → Zazzagi Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Hausa → associatedEthnicGroup → Hausa people ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Hausa → hasStandardVariety → Standard Hausa ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Nollywood → language → Hausa ⓘ
Nollywood → hasSubIndustry → Hausa-language film industry (Kannywood) ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
West Africa → hasLinguaFranca → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Islamic world → hasLanguage → Hausa ⓘ
Kano → language → Hausa ⓘ
Samuel → hasLanguageForm → Hausa ⓘ
Sahel → languageDiversity → Hausa ⓘ
Songhay languages → neighboringLanguages → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Arabic alphabet → usedFor → Hausa language (Ajami) ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Boko alphabet → scriptContrastWith → Arabic-based Hausa Ajami ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Jos → language → Hausa ⓘ
Yola → languageSpoken → Hausa ⓘ
Wuse → commonLocalLanguages → Hausa ⓘ
Hausa-Fulani → languageGroupIncludes → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Garki → languageUsed → Hausa ⓘ
Zazzau Emirate → language → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Minna → languageSpoken → Hausa ⓘ
Nigerian Arabic → influencedBy → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Nigerian Arabic → usedAlongside → Hausa language ⓘ
linked to: Hausa
Maiduguri → languageSpoken → Hausa ⓘ
Zaria → language → Hausa ⓘ