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Description[edit | edit source]
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)[edit | edit source]
- Nigerian Pidgin – 20 useful words and phrases - BritishCouncil
- Useful phrases in Hausa - Omniglot
- 1000 MOST COMMON HAUSA WORDS - 1000 Most Common Words
- Useful phrases in Yoruba - Omniglot
- 1000 MOST COMMON YORUBA WORDS - 1000 Most Common Words
- Useful phrases in Igbo - Omniglot
- 1000 MOST COMMON IGBO WORDS - 1000 Most Common Words
- Useful phrases in Fula - Omniglot
- Fulfulde phrasebook - WikiTravel
- Useful phrases in Efik - Omniglot
- Useful phrases in Tiv - Omniglot
Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]
Alphabet
- Latin alphabet for Hausa - Omniglot
- Arabic alphabet for Hausa - Omniglot
- Hausa Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- The Yoruba alphabet - Omniglot
- Yoruba Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- Igbo alphabet - Omniglot
- Igbo Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- Fula alphabets - Omniglot
- Fula Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- Efik alphabet - Omniglot
- Kanuri alphabet - Omniglot
- Kanuri Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- Tiv alphabet - omniglot
- Tiv Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
- Nupe alphabet - Omniglot
- Nupe Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia
Pronunciation
- Igbo pronunciation - Omniglot
- Efik pronunciation - Omniglot
- Nupe pronunciation - Omniglot
Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
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