NIGERIA is a country of voices, yet too many of those voices are being silenced in the digital age. While the world races ahead with artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and smart apps, ...

With five Nigerian languages among the top 100 languages spoken worldwide, Nigeria is conspicuous on the world language map. However, a lot needs to be done to preserve the languages. KOFOWOROLA ...

In its February update, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included numerous new words of Nigerian origin. Many of the words relate to food preparation, urban transportation, the shortening of ...

Lagos — A language is described as a particular kind of system for encoding and decoding information. The rate at which languages are disappearing globally has become a great issue because there are ...

As English language gains more prominence in both official and private circles in the country, ominous signs stab Yoruba, Igbo and many other indigenous languages in the face as less and less people ...

There are over 500 indigenous languages currently spoken in Nigeria. However, the official language is English. The other major languages spoken in Nigeria are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Edo, ...

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Many of these languages are from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. While the official language in Nigeria is English, and other major languages are ...

Beachler noted that Nsibidi is a distinct written language as well, which has a graphic expression quite separate from other languages. Nsibidi from Calabar area of Nigeria and isiXhosa, the South ...