OLPC Nigeria/Languages

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With over 500 living languages, Nigeria, is probably one of the hardest countries for the localization effort of the OLPC.

Resources
Wikipedia / Nigeria
Wikipedia / Languages of Nigeria
Ethnologue NG
Language / Family ISO 639-1 / -2 / -3 (SIL) Writing system Notes
Edo
Wikipedia PAL
none / bin / bin Latin alphabet variant ~ 1,000,000 speakers
Official
Efik
Wikipedia PAL
none / efi / efi Latin alphabet variant ~ 400,000 speakers
Official (very close to Ibibio & Anaang)
English
Wikipedia
en / eng / eng Latin alphabet ??? speakers
Official
Fulfulde, Adamawa
Wikipedia PAL
ff / ful / fub Latin alphabet variant
Arabic alphabet
Ajami variant
~ 7,600,000 speakers
Official
Fulfulde, Nigerian
Wikipedia PAL
ff / ful / fuv Latin alphabet variant
Arabic alphabet
Ajami variant
~ 1,700,000 speakers
Hausa
Wikipedia PAL
ha / hau / hau Latin alphabet variant
Arabic alphabet
Ajami variant
~ 18,500,000 speakers
Official
Ibibio
Wikipedia PAL
#NA / bnt / ibb Latin alphabet variant ~ 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 speakers (very close to Efik & Anaang)
Idoma
PAL
#NA / #NA / idu Latin alphabet variant ~ 600,000 speakers
Official
Igbo
Wikipedia PAL
ig / ibo / ibo Latin alphabet variant ~ 18,000,000 speakers
Official
Kanuri, Central
Wikipedia PAL
kr / kau / knc Latin script variant
Arabic alphabet
Ajami variant
~ 3,000,000 speakers
Official
Tiv
Wikipedia PAL
#NA / tiv / tiv Latin alphabet variant ~ 2,200,000 speakers
Yoruba
Wikipedia PAL
yo / yor / yor Latin alphabet variant ~ 18,900,000 speakers
Official

Other languages

639-3 Language Speak % 639-3 Language Speak % 639-3 Language Speak %
anw Anaang 1.00M 0.7% bde Bade 0.25M 0.2% bom Berom 0.30M 0.2%
bwr Bura-Pabir 0.25M 0.2% igb Ebira 1.00M 0.7% eke Ekit 0.20M 0.2%
ish Esan 0.20M 0.2% gbr Gbagyi 0.70M 0.5% gby Gbari 0.35M 0.3%
gew Gera 0.20M 0.2% ank Goemai 0.20M 0.2% guw Gun 0.26M 0.2%
igl Igala 0.80M 0.6% ige Igede 0.25M 0.2% ikw Ikwere 0.20M 0.2%
its Isekiri 0.51M 0.4% iso Isoko 0.42M 0.3% izi Izi-Ezaa-Ikwo-Mgbo 0.59M 0.4%
ijc Izon 1.00M 0.7% kaj Jju 0.30M 0.2% ijn Kalabari 0.26M 0.2%
hig Kamwe 0.30M 0.2% kby Kanuri, Manga 0.20M 0.2% ogo Khana 0.20M 0.2%
okr Kirike 0.25M 0.2% mzm Mumuye 0.40M 0.3% sur Mwaghavul 0.29M 0.2%
anc Ngas 0.40M 0.3% nup Nupe-Nupe-Tako 0.80M 0.6% ann Obolo 0.20M 0.2%
ogb Ogbia 0.20M 0.2% urh Urhobo 0.55M 0.4% ets Yekhee 0.27M 0.2%