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  2. Languages of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.

  3. List of ethnic groups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.

  4. Category:Languages of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Languages of Nigeria" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 487 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The major languages spoken in Nigeria represent three major families of languages of Africa: the majority are Niger-Congo languages, such as Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Ijaw, Fulfulde, Ogoni, and Edo. Kanuri, spoken in the northeast, primarily in Borno and Yobe State, is part of the Nilo-Saharan family, and Hausa is an Afroasiatic language. Even ...

  6. Languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Some are based on Indo-European languages (e.g. Krio from English in Sierra Leone and the very similar Pidgin in Nigeria, Ghana and parts of Cameroon; Cape Verdean Creole in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Creole in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all from Portuguese; Seychellois Creole in the Seychelles and Mauritian Creole in Mauritius, both from ...

  7. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... Nigeria: 525 7 524

  8. List of Languages in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Nigeria From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

  9. Central Delta languages - Wikipedia

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    The Central Delta languages are spoken in Rivers State, Bayelsa State and Nigeria. Ogbia is the most populous, with over 200,000 speakers. The languages are Abua – Odual , Ogbia , Kugbo , Abureni , Obulom , O’chi’chi’ , Ogbogolo , Ogbronuagum .