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    Chadian Sign Language may be closest to Nigerian Sign Language. A few countries have languages unrelated to either: Madagascar Sign Language derives from...
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    of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people. The major native languages, in terms of population...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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  • local language is unrelated to Nigerian Sign Language, which is based on American Sign Language. "Local" sign is considered inferior to Nigerian/American...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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  • Puerto Rican Sign Language (1907) Thai Sign Language (1951, creolized with indigenous sign). Ghanaian Sign Language (1957) Nigerian Sign Language (1960) Kuala...
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    which is still pending. Chadian Sign Language is a variant of Nigerian Sign Language, a dialect of American Sign Language; Andrew Foster introduced ASL...
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  • Bura Sign Language is a village sign language used by the Bura people around the village of Kukurpu, 40 km (25 miles) south-east of Biu, Nigeria, an area...
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    The naira (sign: ₦; code: NGN; Yoruba: náírà, Hausa: naira or نَيْرَ, Igbo: naịra, Tyap: nera) is the currency of Nigeria. One naira is divided into 100...
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  • Hausa Sign Language (HSL) or Maganar Hannu is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in northern Nigeria. There are no statistics on the number...
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  • North West's urban areas–like the city of Kano–are large boosts to the Nigerian economy while most rural areas lag behind due to insecurity, low education...
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    hyphenated to the North-East) is the one of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria representing both a geographic and political region of the country's northeast...
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  • East is the smallest geopolitical zone, it contributes greatly to the Nigerian economy due to oil and natural gas reserves along with a growing industrialized...
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    Ladi) is the language mostly spoken in the Pool region and in the south of Brazzaville. The dominant sign language is ASL from Nigeria, influenced by...
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  • A village sign language, or village sign, also known as a shared sign language, is a local indigenous sign language used by both deaf and hearing in an...
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  • mangroves in the coastal far south while the major inland ecoregions are the Nigerian lowland forests ecoregion in the south and east along with the Guinean...
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    000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
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    The Nigerian Armed Forces are the combined military forces of Nigeria. It consists of three uniformed service branches: the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy...
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  • widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and is known by most people who speak another Ethiopian language. Creoles, such as Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria, are used...
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    countries have national sign languages, such as Algerian Sign Language, Tunisian Sign Language, Ethiopian Sign Language. Other sign languages are restricted to...
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    copyrighted to the Nigerian Film unit is Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba; which is also the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour. After Nigeria's independence...
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    Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by only 42% of the...
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    fluidity in indigenous Nigerian cultures List of museums in Nigeria Music of Nigeria Nok culture Nwafor (11 August 2022). "Nigerian cultural values are under...
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    English language and excludes indirect translations from other languages. A black triangle (within the standard down-arrow-shape of stop signs) was a symbol...
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    officers of the Nigerian Corps came from Nigeria. (The first Nigerian officers received their licences at the end of the war). The Nigerian soldiers can...
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  • In September 2020, the Nigerian National Assembly passed the Police Reform Bill 2020, which was signed into law by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari...
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  • Ghanaian Sign Language, a dialect of ASL. In 1960 Nigerian Sign Language was introduced, also as dialect of ASL and it is the national sign language of Nigeria...
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    continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that particular...
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  • Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States is rapidly growing...
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  • Sinasian Sign Language (SSSL) is a village sign language of the Sinasina valley in Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. This language is used by approximately...
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