Semantic Analysis of Arabic Words in Hausa and Kiswahili Languages.
| dc.contributor.author | AbdulRazaq M. Katibi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T11:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T11:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-04 | |
| dc.description | The work compares and contrast the semantic similarity and dissimilarity of Arabic words in Hausa and Kiswahili languages. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Hausa and Kiswahili are among the most widely spread languages –after Arabic- in Africa today. This is due to their positions in the areas of politics, religion, linguistic value and relevance to the society. Scholars and students have studied them intensively and extensively at various level of degrees and linguistics level. Notable among them are, Greenberg and Sajo Balde, they extracted some of Arabic words in the two languages trying to bring out the semantic similarity between them. However they did not study the Semantic Classification of these words. Therefore it is the aim of this study to further extend their works to identifying and analyzing the semantic classification of the selected Arabic words from the two languages. It is discovered that the two languages gives all the Arabic words the same Semantic Classification especially in the areas of Semantic Balance, Semantic Expansion, Semantic Shrinking and Semantic Reversal except in some few cases. It is therefore recommended that further study should be carried out at Semantic level in order to give us more insight into the linguistic values of Arabic, Hausa and Kiswahili languages and to further enrich Afro-Arab Linguistic Relations. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Self sponsored | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1200 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Univerity of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan. | |
| dc.title | Semantic Analysis of Arabic Words in Hausa and Kiswahili Languages. | |
| dc.type | Article |