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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 British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most widely spoken lingua franca and spoken by over 60 million people.
Nigerian-born residents in the United Kingdom: 293,609 – 0.4% ... English is the main spoken language in Nigeria. The Yoruba language and the Igbo language are ...
An Ibibio speaker, recorded in the United Kingdom. Ibibio is the native language of the Ibibio people of Nigeria, belonging to the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster of the Cross River languages. The name Ibibio is sometimes used for the entire dialect cluster.
Nigeria is the world's sixth-most populous country. The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman. [228] Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades. [229]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... Nigeria: 525 7 524 ... United Kingdom: 14 72 85
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
The Esan language is also recognized in the Census of the United Kingdom. [11] [12] It is estimated that the Esan people who reside in Esanland number about one million to 1.5 million citizens Nigeria, [13] and there is a strong Esan diaspora. [14]
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).