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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.
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 London, 10,119 people (0.13% of all residents aged three and over) spoke Yoruba as a main language, 5,252 (0.07%) people spoke Igbo and 3,577 (0.05%) spoke other Nigerian languages. [34] However, in the most recent population census of 2021, Igbo speaking population in England and Wales has increased significantly to 11,074 [1] making Igbo ...
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]
In the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, it is the sole or dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitly defined by law. [9] It is a co-official language of the United Nations , the European Union , and many other international and regional organisations.
New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language) Nigeria (with Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) ... (United Kingdom) (along with Ulster Scots and English) Italian:
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).