List of languages of Nigeria

List of languages of Nigeria

The number of languages currently estimated and catalogued in Nigeria is 521.
"This is only a partial list of Languages of Nigeria."

Living Languages

Extinct Languages

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=NG Ethnologue Listing of Nigerian Languages]
* Blench, Roger (n.d.) [http://www.rogerblench.info/Language%20data/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%20of%20Nigerian%20Languages-%20ed.%20III.pdf Atlas of Nigerian Languages, ed. III] (revised and amended edition of Crozier & Blench 1992)


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