Hausa alphabet

Hausa
Harshen Hausa هَرْشَن هَوْسَ‎
Native to	Niger, Nigeria, Ghana , Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Togo and Libya.
Region	Eastern Sahel as a language of trade
Native speakers	70+ million (2016)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Hausa–Gwandara (A.1) Hausa
Writing system	Latin (Boko alphabet) Arabic (ajami) Hausa Braille
Official status
Official language in	Niger (national status)  Nigeria
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ha
ISO 639-2	hau
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	haus1257
Linguasphere	19-HAA-b
Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa people are based
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Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/) (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by more than 70 million people, and as a second language by another 40 to 50 million or more. Originally the language of the Hausa people stretching across southern Niger and northern Nigeria, it has developed into a lingua franca across much of western Africa for purposes of trade. In the 20th and 21st centuries, it has become more commonly published in print and online.

Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afroasiatic language family.

Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people, are mostly found in Niger, in the north of Nigeria, and in Chad. Furthermore, the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa (Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Ivory Coast etc.), Central Africa (Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon) and in northwestern Sudan, particularly amongst Muslims.