DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i02.002

Pages: 59-64

The purpose of the study was not to assess two points of view and to determine which one is accurate. It was to investigate the use of Text Messaging (SMS) and its impact of corruption (abbreviations, acronyms, slang, syntactic reduction, vowel deletion, truncation, orthography, etc.) on Hausa speakers’ language use. Over 500 SMS were collected from the researcher and volunteers. Our data unveil such phenomena impacting Hausa native language’ use as code switching, code mixing and language transfer which reveal the symbolic value of code choices in the sense it designates how Hausa language is valued in relation to English and French.