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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.
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).
Paraclete Yola, Nigeria 2009. Meek, C.K. Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner &Co., LTD. Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane E. C 1931. 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.
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]
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.
In Nigeria, English is acquired through formal education. [16] As English has been in contact with multiple different languages in Nigeria, Nigerian English has become much more prominent and is very similar to both American and British English, and it is often referred to as a group of different sub-varieties. [16]
New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language) Nigeria (with Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) ... (United Kingdom) (along with Ulster Scots and English) Italian:
A language like the Kiong language spoken by the Okoyong people is extinct because its speakers have imbibed the Efik language over the years. The same is also said of the Efut language spoken by the Efut people in Calabar South, Apart from being the language that is spoken by a third of Cross River State as an L1, it is the L2 or L3 of most ...