ABSTRACT
The style of shortening of a word or phrase to be used to represent the full form is fast growing in all parts of the world including Nigeria. This research reports on some common abbreviations and other texting formats used in making SMS messages in Hausa. It was noticed that Hausa and English text messages undergo almost the same linguistic adjustments such as symbols, letters and numbers or number homophones, contraction, clipping and shortening, acronyms and initialism, nonconventional spelling, accent stylization and other domented text language.
Author: Umar, M.M.
