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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 museum has collections of Nigerian photo history with over 35,000 photographs. [1] It houses photographs and portraits of the slave trades and its relics from the Berlin Conference of 1884/85, the era of Expeditions of Mungo Park, Richard Landers, etc. [2] The museum is located at 138 Ejigbo-Idimu road, Alimosho Council, Lagos, Nigeria. [3]
Nigerian Books of Record (NBR) is a reference / Official Book of Record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for documenting good records held by Nigerians. It is a collection of human achievements categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc. [1] All linguistic features are subject to the effects of ...
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.
Codifying a language can vary from case to case and depends on the stage of standardization that might have already occurred naturally. It typically means to develop a writing system , set up normative rules for grammar , orthography , pronunciation , and usage of vocabulary as well as publish grammar books, dictionaries and similar guidelines.
In the 1960s with education growing in importance in Nigeria, Evans Brothers decided to set up a more targeted form of publishing in the country with better marketing and distribution. Then in December 1966 they set up a full-fledged Nigerian firm which was incorporated under the name of Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Limited, [ 2 ] with ...
In the United Kingdom, the standard language is British English, which is based upon the language of the medieval court of Chancery of England and Wales. [48] In the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Standard English became established as the linguistic norm of the upper class, composed of the peerage and the gentry. [49]