Language

هَوُسَا

Hausa
  • Global speakers: 74,930,300
  • Glottocode: haus1257
  • ISO 639-3: hau
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Hausa speakers in the city may come from a number of places in West Africa and the Sahel, including northern Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. The total number of users of the language internationally is around 75 million, accoridng to Ethnologue, with two thirds in Nigeria and nearly a third in total being second-language speakers. While thought to be less numerous than Yoruba and Igbo speakers in New York, Hausa speakers are nonetheless present in the large West African community in the Bronx and at Nigerian Muslim institutions in Brooklyn's Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and East New York, as well as in Harlem and on Staten Island.
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  • Clinton Hill
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