Comparative analysis of English and Hausa consonants

Abstract EN

The study is conducted in University of kordofan Faculty of Arts during (2019).

The main aim of the study is to find out the similarities and differences between English and Hausa consonants.

The study investigates the area of the subject in both languages.

The study has followed analytical, prescriptive and comparative method.

Data have been collected from references and analyzed by using contain analysis.

The study reached the following results.

English language has (6) plosives / p b t d k g / Hausa language has 10: / b t d k g kw gwkjgj ? /.

Hausa uses implosives /6/ and /d/ and the ejectives/s’/, /k’/, /k’w/ and /k’y/, English language does not have any implosive or ejective.

The plosive /p/and fricative /v/ are not found in Hausa.

The two languages share the nasal sounds /m n g /.

Both languages use lateral /l/.

Short vowels/ a/ /a/ are not found in Hausa.

The study concludes that, there are similarities and differences between the two languages at the level of consonants.

The study recommended, more Judies in comparative Judies should be held to enrich comparative linguistics.

Similarities- differences- implosive- fricative- consonants