TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter One
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Objective of the study
1.4 Research Hypothesis
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope of the study
1.7 Limitation of the study
1.8 Definition of the term
Chapter Two
2.0 Review of related literature
Chapter Three
3.0 Research Design and Methodology
3.1 Sources of data
3.2 Secondary data
3.3 Primary data
3.4 Instrumentation
3.5 Sample size
3.6 Sample procedure
3.7 Return of completed questionnaires
3.8 Method of analysis.
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DATA ANALYSIS
Chapter Five
5.0 Summary of findings, Conclusion, Recommendations
5.1 Summary of Findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
Bibliography
Appendix
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
This work is a comparative study of the numeric system of two of the
most widely spoken languages not only in Nigeria but Africa and the
world as a whole. It is to explain the styles adopted by the speakers of
both languages in expressing numeral situations.
In the early days of some comparison between languages, some scholars
had argued that there was such a strong linguistic affinity between
Hausa and English numerals so much that the two languages could have
common meaning and non- instinctive way of communicating ideas, emotion
and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols. This is because
any language is fundamentally a series of sounds which become meaningful
only when those sounds are grouped together in certain definite
arrangements (Olaye, 1982). Besides, just as languages must name things
and talk about them, virtually all human languages (English and Hausa
inclusive) count things. By this token, numeration is somewhat a
universal phenomenon.
Both English and Hausa languages may need little or no introduction because they are both languages of wider communication.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Given the nature of their numeral comparison, it is good to look at
their linguistic affiliation. Hausa is a Chadic language of the
Afro-Asiatic language family. The Bole-Tongale Angas and Ron groups of
the west Chadic languages represent the closest relative of Hausa. While
English language really started with arrival of three German languages.
In that numbers and counting have become an integral part of English
and Hausa everyday life especially when we take into account, in the
modern computer. These words you are reading have been recorded on a
computer using a code of ones and zeros.
It is an interesting story how those digits have come to dominate our
word. Presently, the earliest known archeological evidence of any form
of writing or counting are scratch marks on a bone from 150,000 years
ago. But the first really evidence of counting in the first form of the
numbers from twenty thousand years ago. An Ishango bone was found in the
Congo with two identical marking of sixty scratches each an equally
numbered group on the back. These Markings are certain education of
counting and they mark defining moment in a western civilization. In
present day, counting we learn about cardinal and ordinal numbers
followed by grammar rules and animal names and that of conversation in
Hausa.