A Study on the Comparative Analysis of Hausa and Jar Pronouns of Northern, Nigeria

Furera Adamu Garba

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A Study on the Comparative Analysis of Hausa and Jar Pronouns of Northern, Nigeria

Furera Adamu Garba

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 9, Issue 3)

Received: 30 April 2021 Accepted: 15 May 2021 Published: 27 May 2021

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This paper title “A Comparative Analysis of the Hausa and Jar Pronouns”, started with brief introduction of importance of language in human endeavor, meaning of pronoun. The historical background of both languages was reviewed, and also the work examines the behavior of the Hausa and Igbo Pronouns. As such, the work analytically compares the nature and positions of pronouns within the sentences or noun phrase of the two languages (Hausa and Igbo). However, this paper identifies the similarities and differences of both singulars and plural Pronouns, such as the Hausa language, has gender in second person and third person, Singular Pronouns Kai, Shi, and Ita. While Jar languages has no gender in second and third person pronouns. Also where English and Jar languages have shared the same rules in second person and object pronouns (you) while the rule differs with Hausa. Another difference is the positions of some subject pronouns singular in Jar languages almost always come after an action word or verb in a sentence, while in Hausa almost always the singular personal subject pronouns appear before an action word (Verb), and methodology of research has been discussed in the paper.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 9, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20210903.16
Page(s)	100-105
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Comparative Analysis, Pronouns, Languages, Hausa, Jar

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Furera Adamu Garba

Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics, Bauchi State University, Gadau, Nigeria

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