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Similarities Between English And Igala Language

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It is a well established fact that no two linguistic codes are ever the same in their grammar, sound systems, morphology and syntax. This study which is a contrastive analysis of the grammar of English and Igala Language is based on this assertion. The analysis is done from the perspective of grammar while paying particular attention to the sentence structure, verbal system, the clause structure and concord. The study reveals that the grammar of Igala as a tonal language of Africa is quite different from the grammar of English which is the language of the British. The study also highlights salient areas of similarities between the two languages being compared and these similarities in the midst of so many differences makes the human language unique. There is, therefore, the need to conduct a methodical study of such differences and similarities for teaching and learning purposes.
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The study of language is usually undertaken for various purposes such as to know how the language works, the kind of components it has and how these components work, to discover how languages conveys meaning and to chart the development that languages undergo over a specific period of time. …show more content…

Most languages of sub Saharan Africa are tonal except Swahili in the East and Fulani and Wolof in the West. The vast numbers of Niger-Congo languages, like Igala, Yoruba, Ijaw, Igbo, Ibibio, Zulu etc. have register tone system. Finch (200) in his opinion says that the verb system in Igala occur in the form of serial verb construction (SVC). This according to Omachonu (2006) include a particular verb phrase with unique characteristics such that only one expressed subject shared noun phrase object and aspect and also there is no intervening coordinating and subordinating conjunction. In most cases, it is verbs of action that are mainly transitive that are serialised in the

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