Hausa May/June 2015

Question 3

           (a)  Me ya bambanta karin sautin sama da fadau ta fuskar lafazi?
              (b)  Kawo misalai uku na kowanne a ckin jumla.

              (a)  What is the difference between high tone and falling tone
              (b)  Write three examples each in  word form.

     

Observation

This is also a question on phonology and candidates were expected to differentiate between a high tone and a falling tone and to give examples of each.
 Thus:

  (a)    Abin da ya bambanta karin sautin sama da fadau ta fuskar lafazi, shi ne kaifin sautin murya yana yin sama ne, a karin sautin sama, amma dangane da karin sauti fadau, sai yayi sama sannan ya yiwo kasa a lokaci guda.

(b)  Karin sautin sama                                Karin sauti fadau
suna                                                             su
makaranta                                                    mai
gida                                                              kai
rana                                                             rai
sarki                                                             zobban

Candidates’ performance in this question was not encouraging.