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Nigeria

Languages

Description

The official language of Nigeria is English.
As reported in 2003, Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin were spoken as a second language by 60 million people in Nigeria.

The major native languages are:

• Hausa language
• Yoruba language
• Igbo language
• Fula language - also known as Fulani, Fulah, and Fulfulde
• Ibibio-Efik languages
• Kanuri language
• Tiv language
• Gbagyi language
• Nupe language

Word List(s)

• Useful phrases in Hausa - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Yoruba - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Igbo - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Fula - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Efik - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Tiv - Omniglot

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

• Latin alphabet for Hausa - Omniglot
• Arabic alphabet for Hausa - Omniglot
• The Yoruba alphabet - Omniglot
• Igbo alphabet - Omniglot
• Fula alphabets - Omniglot
• Efik alphabet - Omniglot
• Kanuri alphabet - Omniglot
• Tiv alphabet - omniglot
• Nupe alphabet - Omniglot

Pronunciation

• Igbo pronunciation - Omniglot
• Efik pronunciation - Omniglot
• Nupe pronunciation - Omniglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

• Wale Adegbite, Inyang Udofot & Kehinde Ayoola, A dictionary of Nigerian English, Ile-Ife : Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2014 - Available at WorldCat
• Ola Rotimi, A dictionary of Nigerian Pidgin English, - Available at WorldCat
• Roxana Ma Newman, An English-Hausa dictionary, Ikeja : Longman, 1997 - Available at WorldCat
• Modern Yoruba dictionary : Yoruba-English, English-Yoruba, Ghana : Kasahorow, 2013 - Available at WorldCat
• Nicholas Awde & Onyekachi Wambu, Igbo English, English Igbo dictionary and phrasebook, New York : Hippocrene Books, 1999 - Available at WorldCat
• I A Mukoshy, A Fulfulde-English dictionary, Ibadan, Nigeria : HEBN Publishers Plc, 2014 - Available at WorldCat
• Elaine Marlowe Kaufman, Ibibio dictionary, Port Harcourt (Nigeria) : Cross River State University ; Leiden : African Studies Centre, 1985 - Available at WorldCat
• Norbert Cyffer, English-Kanuri dictionary, Köln Köppe 1994 - Available at WorldCat
• Gerard Terpstra, English-Tiv dictionary, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1968 - Available at WorldCat
• A W Banfield, Dictionary of the Nupe language, Farnborough, Gregg, 1969 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries

• Dictionary Nigerian Pidgin - English - Glosbe
• Dictionary English - Hausa - Glosbe
• Dictionary English - Yoruba - Glosbe
• Dictionary English - Igbo - Glosbe
• Dictionary Western Niger Fulfulde - English - Glosbe
• Dictionary Ibibio - Efik - Glosbe
• Dictionary Kanuri - English - Glosbe
• Dictionary English - Tiv - Glosbe

Language Aids

• C U C Ugorji, Nigerian English phonology : a preference grammar, Frankfurt am Main Lang 2010 - Available at WorldCat
• Nicholas Gregory Faraclas, A grammar of Nigerian pidgin, Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley 1989 - Available at WorldCat
• Charles H Robinson, Hausa grammar, Muenchen : LINCOM Europa, 2012 - Available at WorldCat
• J A De Gaye & W S Beecroft, Yoruba grammar, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964 - Available at WorldCat
• M A A N Ụwalaka, Igbo grammar, Ibadan : The Pen Services, 1997 - Available at WorldCat
• Sylvia Leith-Ross, Fulani grammar, Lagos, 1921 - Available at WorldCat
• Adolf von Duisburg & Philip Askell Benton, Primer of Kanuri grammar, 1968 - Available at WorldCat
• Roy Clive Abraham, The grammar of Tiv, Kaduna, Nigeria : Government Printer, 1933 - Available at WorldCat
• Samuel Crowther, A grammar and vocabulary of the Nupe language, London : Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, 1864 - Available at WorldCat