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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.
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.
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]
Berom language; Bete language (Nigeria) Bete-Bendi language; Bikwin–Jen languages; Bile language; Bina language; Biseni language; Bitare language; Boga language; Boghom language; Boko language; Bokobaru language; Bokyi language; Bole language; Bole–Tangale languages; Boze language; Bu language; Bumaji language; Bunu language (Nigeria) Bura ...
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
Languages of Nigeria From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Language Branch Cluster Dialects Alternate spellings Own name for language Endonym(s) Other names (location-based) Other names for language Exonym(s) Speakers Location(s) Agọi: Agoi: WaGọi: Ibami: Ro Bambami: Wa Bambami: 3,650 (1953); estimated 12,000 (Faraclas 1989) Cross River State, Obubra LGA, Agoi–Ekpo, Ekom–Agoi, Agoi–Ibami and ...
Western Circassian language. Official language in: Adygea, Russia; Spoken also in: Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Germany, United States, Netherlands etc. Afade – afaë Spoken in: Cameroon and Nigeria; Afar – Qafár af National Language in: Eritrea; Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa; Afrikaans – Afrikaans