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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.
There is a version of Wikipedia in each of the following nine constructed languages. Eight of these languages are IALs (international auxiliary languages), while Lojban is an engineered language. Until 2005, there were also versions of Wikipedia in the constructed languages Toki Pona and Klingon, but these have been deleted. [9]
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.
Most concrete nouns are derived from Hausa, while verbs and abstracts are derived from Igbo or Yoruba. Additionally, words from all three source languages are often fused to create a word that resembles all three. For example, the Guosa word méni "what" is derived from Hausa menini, Igbo gini, and Yoruba kini, all meaning "what". [3]
Codes for constructed languages; Coelbren y Beirdd; Communicationssprache; Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues; ConScript Unicode Registry; Portal:Constructed languages; List of constructed scripts; Constructed writing system; Controlled language in machine translation
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 .
Language Wikipedia code Articles Pages Edits Depth Active Wikipedians Launch date Esperanto: eo: 363,278: 816,333 8,941,837 17.04 294 28 November 2001
Map cut-out of Volta-Niger family of languages area, with most of the languages bounded by the Volta river, in modern-day Ghana, and the Niger river, found in modern-day Nigeria The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa , is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family , with perhaps 70 ...