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. It has a written form for more than 200 years. First an [Arabic script]
? was used, but this has been superseded mostly by a Latin script which was introduced at the beginning of the
20th century. Hausa is a [tone language]
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