Country Info

Nigeria Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 116,857,416 people (61% of Nigeria) that can read or write at least one language.

18 Writing Systems used in Nigeria

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
101,034,960
people

Nigerian Pidgin (Latin)

pcm-latn
language code
40,032,720
people

Hausa (Latin)

ha-latn
language code
24,782,160
people

Igbo (Latin)

ig-latn
language code
24,782,160
people

Yoruba (Latin)

yo-latn
language code
24,782,160
people

Nigerian Fulfulde (Latin)

fuv-latn
language code
12,772,343
people

Tiv (Latin)

tiv-latn
language code
3,050,112
people

Efik (Latin)

efi-latn
language code
2,668,847
people

Ibibio (Latin)

ibb-latn
language code
2,668,847
people

Hausa (Arabic)

ha-arab
language code
1,906,320
people

Bini (Latin)

bin-latn
language code
1,353,487
people

Jju (Latin)

kaj-latn
language code
400,327
people

Tyap (Latin)

kcg-latn
language code
177,287
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
135,348
people

Atsam (Latin)

cch-latn
language code
40,032
people

Amo (Latin)

amo-latn
language code
16,775
people

Fulah (Latin)

ff-latn
language code
0
people

Fulah (Adlam)

ff-adlm
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR