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Ishaku, Yafadkaniu. Sociolinguitic Survey of Lala Speaking Group of Gombi and Shelleng Local Government of Adamawa State. Department of Linguistics and Bible Translation, TCNN, Jos. 2023. Blench, Rodger. An Atlass of Nigerian Languages. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 8, Guest Road Cambridge CB12AL United Kingdom, 2014.
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.
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface , a mobile app for Android and iOS , as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications . [ 3 ]
An Ibibio speaker, recorded in the United Kingdom. Ibibio is the native language of the Ibibio people of Nigeria , belonging to the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster of the Cross River languages . The name Ibibio is sometimes used for the entire dialect cluster.
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 ...
The Esan language is also recognized in the Census of the United Kingdom. [14] [15] It is estimated that the Esan people who reside in Esanland number about one million to 1.5 million citizens Nigeria, [16] and there is a strong Esan diaspora. [17]
Though there are a few technical differences, they are in practice one and the same office. The following persons have served as British High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria since the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960: 1960–1963: Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head [1]
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).