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LANGUAGE PATTERNS: SOME HAUSA MODIFICATIONS ON SOME ARABIC NAMES



Abstract
This paper discusses the various groups of Hausa names which include traditional names and Islamic names. Furthermore, the paper analyzed some modifications on Hausa Islamic names which basically happened as a result of some linguistic approaches in the language. For example; phonologically, Hausa syllable system could be either open syllable (CV/CVV) or closed syllable (CVC) and also most of the final syllables of Hausa words (including names) has open syllable, while Arabic names has closed syllable as word terminal. Thus a pronunciation of Islamic Arabic names have been modified by Hausa speakers by adding final vowel and changing of tone position on them to enable the speaker’s pronunciations to be according to the language pattern i.e. Àmeèn => Àmiínù,             Kàbeèr => Kàbiírù, Máryâm => Máryámù or Màryaámà. Moreover, there are some Arabic consonants which are not in the Hausa language, some of them, have been modified in Hausa for easy pronunciation, for instance; Hiídìr => Hàllírù, Thaálìth (θaálìθ) => Saáliísù. However, morphologically, the names can be modified by deletion one or two of their either initial syllable or final syllable or both. For example: Àbuúbákàr => Àbuú, Buúkàr, Buúbà. Àliíyù => Àlií, Áálì. Áá’ìsháh => Áá’ì, Faátìmáh => Faàtií. This research is based on linguistics analysis with the framework of Transformational Generative Grammar Theory (TGG). 


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