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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.
Several hundred different languages are spoken in Nigeria. The different Latin alphabets made it impractical to create Nigerian typewriters. In the 1980s the National Language Centre (NLC) undertook to develop a single alphabet suitable for writing all the languages of the country, and replacing use of Arabic script, taking as its starting point a model proposed by linguist Kay Williamson in 1981.
Sign languages of Nigeria (4 P) Nigerian slang (9 P) Y. Yoruba language (3 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Languages of Nigeria" The following 200 pages are in this ...
Nigerian Fulfulde, also known as Hausa States Fulfulde, Fula, or Fulani is a variety of the Fula language spoken by the Fulani people in Nigeria, particularly in the Northern region of Nigeria. It belongs to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
Nigeria stands out as one of the world's most linguistically diverse nations, with over 500 languages spoken among its 223 million [2] [3] people (2023 estimate [4]), a testament to its rich ethnic heritage.
Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a variety of English spoken in Nigeria. [1] Based on British and American English, the dialect contains various loanwords and collocations from the native languages of Nigeria, due to the need to express concepts specific to the cultures of ethnic groups in the nation (e.g. senior wife).
The linguistic groups of Nigeria in 1979. Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people, are mostly found in southern Niger and northern Nigeria. [4] [3] [9] The language is used as a lingua franca by non-native speakers in most of northern Nigeria, southern Niger, northern Cameroon, northern Ghana, northern Benin, northern Togo, southern Chad and parts of Sudan.
Otiti ò 3SG chó steal. PST ọhọ hen ná DET Òtítí ò chó ọhọ ná Otiti 3SG steal.PST hen DET ‘Otiti stole the hen.’ References ^ Urhobo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) ^ Elugbe, B. O. 1989. Edoid: Phonology and Lexicon. Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press. ^ "Nigeria | History, Population, Flag, Map, Languages, Capital, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com ...