Native speakers of Hausa are mostly to be found in the African country of Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is widely used as a lingua franca (similar to Swahili in East Africa) in a much larger swathe of West Africa, particularly amongst Muslims.
Hausa language. (2006, September 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:49, October 5, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hausa_language&oldid=77367601
Hausa
Keyboard prepared with Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx).
Hausa CLDR Locale
Version 1.1: http://www.it46.se/localegen/locale/1143564297_ha_GH.xml
Version 1.0: http://www.it46.se/localegen/locale/1142543401_ha_NG.xml
Hausa Alphabet
| Sort order is left to right, top to bottom | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet | a | A | b | B | ɓ | Ɓ | c | C | d | D |
| Unicode Code Point | U+0061 | U+0041 | U+0062 | U+0042 | U+0253 | U+0181 | U+0063 | U+0043 | U+0064 | U+0044 |
| Alphabet | ɖ | Đ | e | E | f | F | g | G | h | H |
| Unicode Code Point | U+257 | U+18A | U+0065 | U+0045 | U+0066 | U+0046 | U+0067 | U+0047 | U+0068 | U+0048 |
| Alphabet | i | I | j | J | k | K | ƙ | Ƙ | l | L |
| Unicode Code Point | U+0069 | U+0049 | U+006A | U+004A | U+006B | U+004B | U+0199 | U+0198 | U+006C | U+004C |
| Alphabet | m | M | n | N | o | O | r | R | s | S |
| Unicode Code Point | U+006D | U+004D | U+006E | U+004E | U+006F | U+004F | U+0072 | U+0052 | U+0073 | U+0053 |
| Alphabet | t | T | u | U | w | W | y | Y | ƴ | Ƴ |
| Unicode Code Point | U+0074 | U+0054 | U+0075 | U+0055 | U+0077 | U+0057 | U+0079 | U+0059 | U+1B4 | U+1B3 |
| Alphabet | z | Z | ʼ | |||||||
| Unicode Code Point | U+007A | U+005A | U+02BC | |||||||
Resources
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