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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.
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
This makes Benue–Congo one of the largest subdivisions of the Niger–Congo language family, both in number of languages, of which Ethnologue counts 976 (2017), and in speakers, numbering perhaps 350 million. Benue–Congo also includes a few minor isolates in the Nigeria–Cameroon region, but their exact relationship is uncertain.
Berom language; Bete language (Nigeria) Bete-Bendi language; Bikwin–Jen languages; Bile language; Bina language; Biseni language; Bitare language; Boga language; Boghom language; Boko language; Bokobaru language; Bokyi language; Bole language; Bole–Tangale languages; Boze language; Bu language; Bumaji language; Bunu language (Nigeria) Bura ...
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.
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel . They include 196 languages [ 1 ] spoken across northern Nigeria , southern Niger , southern Chad , and northern Cameroon .
Language Branch Cluster Dialects Alternate spellings Own name for language Endonym(s) Other names (location-based) Other names for language Exonym(s) Speakers Location(s) Notes Daba: Daba: Daba: A single village, less than 1,000. Mostly in Cameroun: Adamawa State, Mubi LGA. Between Mubi and Bahuli: Mafa: Mafa: Mafa (Mofa) in Nigeria.
Hausa is spoken by over 100 to 150 million people across Africa, making it the most spoken Indigenous African language and the 11th most spoken language in the world. [5] Since the Trans-Saharan trade, Hausa is used as a lingua franca spanning from Agadez deep in the Sahara Desert of Niger to Northern Nigeria, and has many loanwords from Arabic.