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The following is a non-exhaustive list of ethnic groups in Nigeria. Name of Ethnic Group [11] State Abayon: Cross River State: Abua (Odual) Rivers State: Achipa ...
Pages in category "Tajik-language surnames" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abdulayev;
This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group, an Eastern Iranic people native to modern day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. This list also includes other closely associated ethnicities to Tajiks.
This category and its subcategories are restricted to people verified to be of Tajik heritage/descent/origin, according to reliable published sources. See Category:Tajikistani people for related people by nationality.
The name "Tajik" (Persian: تاجیک, romanized: tājīk, Tajik: тоҷик, romanized: tojik) did not always have the same meaning and did always serve as the self-designation of the present-day Tajik people. It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly ...
Given names of Nigerian origin (2 C, 42 P) H. Hausa names (2 C, 13 P) I. Igbo names (3 C, 54 P) S. Surnames of Nigerian origin (210 P) Y. Yoruba names (1 C, 76 P)
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.
For instance, the President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon, dropped the Russian suffix "-ov" from his surname and directed others to adopt Tajik names when registering births. [100] According to a government announcement in October 2009, approximately 4,000 Tajik nationals have dropped "ov" and "ev" from their surnames since the start of the year.