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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.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
It is written, spoken and used in all provinces/territories of Pakistan, and together with English as the main languages of instruction, [144] although the people from differing provinces may have different native languages. [145] Urdu is taught as a compulsory subject up to higher secondary school in both English and Urdu medium school systems ...
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language.
Several studies have shown the Edo language is the major African component that constitutes the foundation of the creoles of the Gulf of Guinea.
Namibia (Afrikaans, German, and Oshiwambo are spoken regionally) [38] Nauru (with Nauruan) New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language) Nigeria (with Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language) Palau (with Palauan) Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu) Philippines (with Filipino) Rwanda (with ...
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2] Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), [3] one of the