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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.
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]
Pages in category "Languages of Nigeria" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 487 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Language Wikipedia code Articles Pages Edits Depth Active Wikipedians Launch date Esperanto: eo: 363,278: 816,333 8,941,837 17.04 294 28 November 2001
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 ...