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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).
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.
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.Examples familiar to English-speakers are the tut-tut (British spelling) or tsk! tsk!
Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa.
South-west Nigeria Adé audio ⓘ ( / ə ˈ d i / or / ɑː ˈ d eɪ / ) is a popular Nigerian given name or nickname , which means " crown" or " royalty" in the Yorùbá language . [ 1 ] Often times, the name ‘Ade’ is associated with someone from a royal family or someone from a royal lineage.
Pronunciation: Native to: Rivers state , Nigeria ... is a [3] language spoken primarily by the Ikwerre people, who inhabit certain areas of Rivers State, Nigeria.
In Old English and Middle English, any ng sequence stood for two sounds: the velar nasal [] followed by the voiced velar stop [].The velar nasal did not have a phonemic status, being a mere allophone of /n/, as in Spanish or Italian (or as in Modern Standard English in words such as Bengali or Vancouver, where there is a free variation between an alveolar nasal and a velar nasal).
Photo of His Royal Majesty, Eze Chukwuemeka Eri; the Traditional Ruler of Enugwu Aguleri in his royal regalia. Eze (pronounced ) is an Igbo word which means King.Such words as Igwe and Obi, plus others, are used by Igbo people as titles of respect and homage to the Eze.