HAUSA AND ITS LINGUISTIC OFFSPRING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAUSA AND GWANDARA ORTHOGRAPHIES

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MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA (2019) - Hausa and its Linguistic Offspring - A Comparative Study of Hausa and Gwandara Orthographies (Published_KIJOSH_NSUK).pdf (674.2 KB)

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2019-01-28

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Department of English language Nasarawa State University Keffi

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Hausa and Gwandara languages are related in more than one way. This is because history has it that the people referred to as Gwandara were originally Hausa people. However, a couple of historical and linguistic events occurred that forever changed their history. It is these sociolinguistic and historical developments that this paper explores to explain the circumstances that led to the development of what started as an artificial language but has fully evolved as Gwandara with its own orthography recently developed. Gwandara is a debased form of Hausa language which started as zaurance, an artificially carved language from the ancient Hausa language. Using the weak version of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) as a theoretical model, the study takes a descriptive comparison between the two orthographies to arrive at the findings that Hausa and Gwandara languages are indeed related in both linguistic and historical lineages, more so that Hausa gave birth to Gwandara language which is one of the major languages in the North-Central region of Nigeria.

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Hausa, Gwandara, Orthography, Zaurance, Ajami, Boko, Alphabet

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https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3174

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