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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)

• 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

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

Dictionaries

• Adegbite, Wale, Inyang Udofot, and Kehinde Ayoola. A dictionary of Nigerian English. Ile-Ife,: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2014. Available at: WorldCat.
• Rotimi, Ola. A dictionary of Nigerian Pidgin English. Nigeria: Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1970. Available at: WorldCat.
• Newman, Roxana Ma. An English-Hausa dictionary. Ikeja: Longman, 1997. Available at: WorldCat.
• Modern Yoruba dictionary : Yoruba-English, English-Yoruba. Ghana: Kasahorow, 2013. Available at: WorldCat.
• Awde, Nicholas, and Onyekachi Wambu. Igbo English, English Igbo dictionary and phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1999. Available at: WorldCat.
• Mukoshy, I. A. A Fulfulde-English dictionary. Ibadan, Nigeria: HEBN Publishers Plc, 2014. Available at: WorldCat.
• Kaufman, Elaine Marlowe. Ibibio dictionary. Port Harcourt (Nigeria), Leiden: Cross River State University, 1985. Available at: WorldCat.
• Cyffer, Norbert. English-Kanuri dictionary. Köln: Köppe, 1994. Available at: WorldCat.
• Terpstra, Gerard. English-Tiv dictionary. Ibadan, Nigeria: Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1968. Available at: WorldCat.
• Banfield, A. W. 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

• Ugorji, C. U. C. Nigerian English phonology : a preference grammar. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010. Available at: WorldCat.
• Faraclas, Nicholas Gregory. A grammar of Nigerian pidgin. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U.M.I., n.d.. Available at: WorldCat.
• Robinson, Charles H. Hausa grammar. Muenchen: LINCOM Europa, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.
• De Gaye, J. A, and W. S. Beecroft . Yoruba grammar. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. Available at: WorldCat.
• Ụwalaka, M. A. A. N. Igbo grammar. Ibadan: The Pen Services, 1997. Available at: WorldCat.
• Leith-Ross, Sylvia. Fulani grammar. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925. Available at: WorldCat.
• von Duisburg, Adolf, and Philip Askell Benton. Primer of Kanuri grammar. London: Oxford University Press, 1917. Available at: WorldCat.
• Abraham, Roy Clive. The grammar of Tiv. Kaduna, Nigeria: Government Printer, 1933. Available at: WorldCat.
• Crowther, Samuel. A grammar and vocabulary of the Nupe language. Salisbury Square, London: Church Missionary House, 1864. Available at: WorldCat.