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    native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian...
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  • of ethnic groups in Nigeria. "Africa: Nigeria". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2020-06-21. "Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in...
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  • Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naija or Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language...
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    widely spoken of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria. With the majority of Nigeria's populace in the rural areas, the major languages of communication...
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  • Africa Nigerians, people from Nigeria Nigerian cuisine There is no language called "Nigerian". For the most widely spoken languages in Nigeria, see Languages...
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    sign language varieties of ASL in countries other than the US and Canada, languages based on ASL with substratum influence from local sign languages, and...
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  • dictionary. Nigeria is a country in West Africa. Nigeria or Nigerian may also refer to: Nigeria national football team Colonial Nigeria Languages of Nigeria Nigerian...
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    of Hausa speakers to an estimated 88 million. In Nigeria, the Hausa film industry is known as Kannywood. Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup...
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  • Izon languages (/ˈiːdʒɔː/), otherwise known as the Ịjọ languages, are the languages spoken by the Izon people in southern Nigeria. The Ijo languages were...
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  • (Bauci, Baushi) is a cluster of Kainji languages spoken in Rafi, Nigeria LGA, Niger State, Nigeria. The Baushi languages are (Blench 2012): Samburu Ndəkə...
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  • languages. Abuja, Nigeria and Dallas: Nigerian Language Development Centre, Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, and Summer...
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  • Hausa: Jaranci) is the most populous of the Bantu languages of northern Nigeria. It is a dialect cluster consisting of many varieties. /β/ only appears as...
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  • Ika Language is a language classified under the Igboid cluster of languages spoken in Delta and Edo States. The Ika Language is an Igboid Language spoken...
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  • is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba...
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    Kirdi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. Several names are applied to the language, just as to the Fula people. They call their language Pulaar...
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    widely used Nigerian languages. Nigerian Pidgin is used widely as an unofficial medium of communication, especially in the Nigerian cities of Warri, Sapele...
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  • Blench, Roger. 2013. The Nupoid languages of west-central Nigeria: overview and comparative word list. Asu language (Nigeria) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)...
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    and in other parts of Nigeria. Edo is an Edoid language. This languages are also spoken in Rivers State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria. There are seven vowels...
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    native languages in Nigeria, there are many titles for traditional rulers. In the northern Muslim states, Emir is commonly used in the English language, but...
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    counts at over 3,000. Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in...
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  • to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1978. The Southern Bauchi Group of Chadic Languages: A survey report. Coll. Africana...
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  • the largest of the Tivoid languages, a group of languages belonging to the Southern Bantoid languages Tiv is widely spoken in the States of Benue, Nasarawa...
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  • 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...
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  • language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Ogu people in Benin, as well as in south-western Nigeria. Gun is part of the Fon cluster of languages...
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  • zones in Nigeria and about 250 ethnic groups with over 521 languages. However, the Constitution of Nigeria as amended in 1999 permits freedom of assembly...
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    native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ancient ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Igbo Languages are spoken by a total of 44 million...
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    The South Bauchi languages (also called the B.3 West Chadic or Barawa languages) are a branch of West Chadic languages that are spoken in Bauchi State...
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    Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. They include Hausa, the most populous Chadic language and a major...
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    indigenous languages outside their own indigenous language. Nigeria portal British Nigerian Demographics of Nigeria Nigerian Americans List of Nigerians "The...
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    The Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon...
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