OLPC Nigeria/Languages

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	none / bin / bin	Latin alphabet variant	~ 1,000,000 speakers Official
Efik Wikipedia	none / efi / efi	Latin alphabet variant	~ 400,000 speakers Official
English Wikipedia	en / eng / eng	Latin alphabet	??? speakers Official
Fulfulde, Adamawa Wikipedia	ff / ful / fub	Latin alphabet variant Arabic alphabet —Ajami variant	~ 7,600,000 speakers Official
Fulfulde, Nigerian Wikipedia	ff / ful / fuv	Latin alphabet variant Arabic alphabet —Ajami variant	~ 1,700,000 speakers
Hausa Wikipedia	ha / hau / hau	Latin alphabet variant Arabic alphabet —Ajami variant	~ 18,500,000 speakers Official
Ibibio Wikipedia	#NA / bnt / ibb	Latin alphabet variant	~ 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 speakers
Idoma	#NA / #NA / idu	Latin alphabet variant	~ 600,000 speakers Official
Igbo Wikipedia	ig / ibo / ibo	Latin alphabet variant	~ 18,000,000 speakers Official
Kanuri, Central Wikipedia	kr / kau / knc	Latin script variant Arabic alphabet —Ajami variant	~ 3,000,000 speakers Official
Tiv Wikipedia	#NA / tiv / tiv	Latin alphabet variant	~ 2,200,000 speakers
Yoruba Wikipedia	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%