An Indepth Study Of Lexical Borrowing From English To Hausa

An Indepth Study Of Lexical Borrowing From English To Hausa

Chapter One

Preface

This design is centered on An In- depth Study on Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa, with the end to study the English and Hausa verbal loan words. The conception borrowing has been defined and explains by different scholars. It’s a universal socio- verbal miracle which is as a result of different societies in contact, as a result of this contact artistic particulars sludge freely from one culture to another.

This is true in the case of language as there’s a dare need for communication between speakers of different language communities who come into contact. This is thus in the case with language development through verbal borrowing in English and Hausa.

It’s a common fact that no language can live in insulation without interacting with neibouring or other language around it. The commerce could be political, profitable and social In a situation where a language remains without new words, there’s every tendency that similar language would logging behind other language.

The borrower words are frequently appertained to technologye.g. machine, machine, telephonee.t.c. language which is the major need of any society.

It’s nearly insolvable for any language to remain purely on its own unless the speakers don’t leave their sphere for another and also don’t allow speakers of another language in to their sphere. verbal borrowing is common in utmost languages because no language is an inland on its own, it’s on this note this design will bandy the miracle of language development through verbal borrowing. It’s going to deal with study of English and Hausa language as each borrowing from one another.