Hausa is the [Chadic language]
? with the largest number of speakers as it is spoken by about 30 million people. It is mainly spoken in the
African country of
Niger and the north of
Nigeria. Its had a written form for more than 200 years, which was in an [Arabic script]
?, but that has been superseded by a Latin script which was introduced at the beginning of the
20th century. Hausa is a [tone language]
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