Home › Languages
Languages
Nigeria's major languages, language families, and practical phrasebooks for everyday use.
- Major Languages
- Language Families & Linguistics
- Practical Language Guides
Articles
Hausa is a Chadic language of the Afro-Asiatic family, native to northern Nigeria and southern Niger and used as a trade lingua franca across…
Igbo is a Volta-Niger language of the Niger-Congo family, native to south-eastern Nigeria's Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states, with speakers also in…
Nigerian Pidgin, known in scholarship as Naijá, is an English-lexifier contact language spoken as a nationwide lingua franca and, in parts of the Niger…
Yorùbá is a Volta-Niger language of the Niger-Congo family, native to south-western Nigeria, Kwara and Kogi states, and parts of Benin and Togo. Estimates…