Question: In which countries are Hausa and Yor\`ub\'a spoken?
Evidence: Hausa language is the second most spoken indigenous language in Africa with over 40 million native speakers BIBREF20, and one of the three major languages in Nigeria, along with Igbo and Yorùbá. The language is native to the Northern part of Nigeria and the southern part of Niger, and it is widely spoken in West and Central Africa as a trade language in eight other countries: Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Sudan. Hausa has several dialects but the one regarded as standard Hausa is the Kananci spoken in the ancient city of Kano in Nigeria. Kananci is the dialect popularly used in many local (e.g VON news) and international news media such as BBC, VOA, DW and Radio France Internationale. Hausa is a tone language but the tones are often ignored in writings, the language is written in a modified Latin alphabet. Despite the popularity of Hausa as an important regional language in Africa and it's popularity in news media, it has very little or no labelled data for common NLP tasks such as text classification, named entity recognition and question answering.
Yorùbá language is the third most spoken indigenous language in Africa after Swahilli and Hausa with over 35 million native speakers BIBREF20. The language is native to the South-western part of Nigeria and the Southern part of Benin, and it is also spoken in other countries like Republic of Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil. Yorùbá has several dialects but the written language has been standardized by the 1974 Joint Consultative Committee on Education BIBREF21, it has 25 letters without the Latin characters (c, q, v, x and z) and with additional characters (ẹ, gb, ṣ , ọ). Yorùbá is a tone language and the tones are represented as diacritics in written text, there are three tones in Yorùbá namely low ( \), mid (“$-$”) and high ($/$). The mid tone is usually ignored in writings. Often time articles written online including news articles like BBC and VON ignore diacritics. Ignoring diacritics makes it difficult to identify or pronounce words except they are in a context. For example, owó (money), ọw (broom), òwò (business), w (honour), ọw (hand), and w (group) will be mapped to owo without diacritics. Similar to the Hausa language, there are few or no labelled datasets for NLP tasks.
Hausa language is the second most spoken indigenous language in Africa with over 40 million native speakers BIBREF20, and one of the three major languages in Nigeria, along with Igbo and Yorùbá. The language is native to the Northern part of Nigeria and the southern part of Niger, and it is widely spoken in West and Central Africa as a trade language in eight other countries: Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Sudan.
Yorùbá language is the third most spoken indigenous language in Africa after Swahilli and Hausa with over 35 million native speakers BIBREF20. The language is native to the South-western part of Nigeria and the Southern part of Benin, and it is also spoken in other countries like Republic of Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil.
Answer: The answers are shown as follows:
* Nigeria
* Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Sudan
* Republic of Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil