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A glottal stop [ʔ] can be heard within a word-initial or word-final vowel or within syllabic nasals. /n/ is heard as a velar [ŋ] when in the following positions; word-final, before or after a consonant, or in isolation. The palatal /ɲ/ can have a post-nasal allophone of [j ̃]. Stops /p, b/ may also occur as slightly aspirated [pʰ, bʱ].
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) Notes Mumuye cluster: Mumuye: Mumuye: 103,000 (1952); 400,000 (1980 UBS) Taraba State, Jalingo, Zing, Yorro and Mayo Belwa LGAs: North–Eastern Mumuye: Mumuye: Mumuye
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.
Rainmaking rod used by Mumuye. The Mumuye are people of the Taraba State, Nigeria.They speak the Mumuye language.They constitute the largest tribal group in Taraba State of Nigeria and form the predominant tribes found in Zing, Yorro, Jalingo, Ardo-Kola, Lau, Gassol, Bali and Gashaka, all of which are local government areas of the state.
Mumu, a French film; Mumu (computer worm) (or Muma), isolated in 2003; Mumu (or momo), a ghost or monster in Philippine mythology; The UK band The KLF were previously known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; Moo-Moo, a chain of buffet restaurants in Moscow, Russia; Mumu or Muma is the Old Irish for the province of Munster
Slang words used widely in Nigeria. Pages in category "Nigerian slang" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Add languages ...
Several hundred different languages are spoken in Nigeria. The different Latin alphabets made it impractical to create Nigerian typewriters. In the 1980s the National Language Centre (NLC) undertook to develop a single alphabet suitable for writing all the languages of the country, and replacing use of Arabic script, taking as its starting point a model proposed by linguist Kay Williamson in 1981.