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  2. Chinese people in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    In 1930, colonial Nigeria's census showed four Hakka people living there. [2] Hong Kong investors began opening factories in Nigeria as early as the 1950s. [3] By 1965 there were perhaps 200 Chinese people in the country. By 1999, that number had grown to 5,800, including 630 from Taiwan and 1,050 from Hong Kong. [2]

  3. Asian Nigerian - Wikipedia

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    It also refers to Asian-born persons currently living in Nigeria. By mid-2008, Filipino residents in the country had increased to an estimated 4,500, up from 3,790 in December 2005. [citation needed] There is a large population of Chinese people in Nigeria which comprise Chinese expatriates and descendants born in Nigeria with Chinese ancestry ...

  4. List of ethnic groups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria stands out as one of the world's most linguistically diverse nations, with over 500 languages spoken among its 223 million [2] [3] people (2023 estimate [4]), a testament to its rich ethnic heritage.

  5. Han Chinese - Wikipedia

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    It continues to be deeply ingrained in modern Chinese culture and was the official state philosophy in ancient China during the Han dynasty and until the fall of imperial China in the 20th century (though it is worth noting that there is a movement in China today advocating that the culture be "re-Confucianized"). [232]

  6. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  7. Demographics of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Over 1.2 million people living in Nigeria (0.5% of its total population, or 1 in every 200 people living in Nigeria) are from a continent other than Africa. There are 100,000 people from the United States, [ 14 ] 75,000 are from Lebanon , [ 15 ] 60,000 are from China [ 16 ] and 16,000 are from the United Kingdom.

  8. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is a 2-byte kernel version of Unicode with 2^16=65,536 code points for important characters of many languages. There are 27,522 characters in the CJKV (China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam) Ideographs Area, including all the simplified and traditional Chinese characters in GB2312 and Big5 traditional.

  9. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Nigerian Pidgin: English Creole: Krio: 5 million 116 million 121 million Egyptian Arabic (excl. other Arabic dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 78 million 25 million 103 million Marathi: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 83 million 16 million 99 million Telugu: Dravidian: South-Central 83 million 13 million 96 million Turkish: Turkic: Oghuz: 84 million ...