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Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by Positivepoint(m): 8:27pm On Sep 05, 2018
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New research has found that Hausa language, which is widely spoken in Northern Nigeria and other African nations, is the world’s 11th most spoken language.

According to Spectator Index, there are 150 million speakers of Hausa language all over the world, two million more than speakers of Punjabi (mainly in India) and 21 million more than German speakers.

Mandarin, which is spoken mainly in China, is the world’s most spoken language at 1.09 billion speakers, while English follows in second at 983 million speakers.

See full list of leading languages by number of speakers in million:

Mandarin: 1090
English: 983
Hindustani: 544
Spanish: 527
Arabic: 422
Malay: 281
Russia: 267
Bengali: 261
Portuguese: 229
French: 229
Hausa: 150
Punjabi: 148
German: 129
Japanese: 129
Persian: 121

http://www.herald.ng/full-list-hausa-is-worlds-11th-most-spoken-language/amp/
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by Nobody: 8:30pm On Sep 05, 2018
And how is that our business....or how does it concern us....

Pls mods move this topic to culture section.

Mtcheew.

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Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by SadiqBabaSani: 8:32pm On Sep 05, 2018
Hausa Are Quite A Numba Dou
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by thesicilian: 8:33pm On Sep 05, 2018
Juliusmalema:
And how is that our business....or how does it concern us....

Pls mods move this topic to culture section.

Mtcheew.
Lol
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by chiagozien(m): 8:34pm On Sep 05, 2018
What of our yoruba language
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by yomi96(m): 8:52pm On Sep 05, 2018
chiagozien:
What of our yoruba language
don't be a bigot. buhari is a failure does not mean the ethnic group is a failure

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Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by 360degreess(m): 8:58pm On Sep 05, 2018
wow that's good.I am not surprise though,because anywhere you go you must see people speaking hausa language.
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by Naajjii: 9:11pm On Sep 05, 2018
Hausa what a sweet language
Re: Hausa Is World’s 11th Most Spoken Language by Nbote(m): 9:16pm On Sep 05, 2018
Before nko, Hausa is widely spoken in many countries of Africa.. Dats why there are so many illegal migrants in d North.. Once U speak d language, U are free. It's one of d reasons BBC Hausa came to b

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