However, linguists have identified dialect areas with a cluster of features characteristic of each one. Hausa presents a wide uniformity wherever is spoken. Furthermore, the language is used as a lingua franca by non-native speakers in most of Northern Nigeria and Southern Niger, and as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Chad and parts of Sudan). Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people, are mostly found in Niger, in Northern Nigeria, Northern Cameroon, and in Chad. In Nigeria, the Hausa-speaking film industry is known as the Kannywood. According to more recent estimations, Hausa would be spoken by 100–150 million people. Ethnologue estimated that it was spoken as a first language by some 47 million people and as a second language by another 25 million, bringing the total number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 72 million. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa ( / ˈ h aʊ s ə/ Harshen/ Halshen Hausa Ajami: هَرْشَن هَوْسَ‎) is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, mainly within the northern half of Nigeria and the southern half of Niger, and with significant minorities in Chad, Benin, and Cameroon. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa people are based.

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