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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.
Language codes; ISO 639-3 – Glottolog: dako1256: The Dakoid languages shown within Nigeria. ... Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from ...
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages ...
The ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom is GB (for Great Britain). UK is an exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 code. However, the creation of the .uk TLD predates the ISO 3166-1 list of ccTLDs and is the primary TLD for the United Kingdom. [69] Nominet UK: Yes: Yes: Yes 24 July 1985.us United States of America: United States
This is the complete ISO code and name list as of the Jan 2019 code-table update. The bare ISO names are linked, without 'language' appended. That means that some links will lead to dab pages or even to the wrong article, some of which might not have a hatnote redirect. (For very short names (1–3 letters), this is being checked on the talk page.)
The Yoruba Names Project is set up to help document the Yoruba language first through all the names borne by its people, and later through an online dictionary.. It is part of a larger effort to help document the African cultural experience on the internet by making them easy to write and access via information technology.
Official language in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo; Lingua Franca Nova – lingua franca nova International Auxiliary Language; Lisu – ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ or ꓡꓲꓢꓴ Official language in: the Chinese autonomous prefecture of Nujiang Lisu and the Chinese autonomous county of Weixi Lisu; Lithuanian – Lietuvių
One organization, however, the Linguist List, makes its assignments known publicly, using them primarily to refer to extinct languages (a class of languages that are often missing from the standard). The Linguist List's codes are not official ISO 639-3 codes, but are compatible with the official standard, and may be safely used as long as their ...