<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> There are over 520 languages spoken in Nigeria . The official and most commonly spoken language of Nigeria is English, the former language of colonial British Nigeria . In 2003, it was spoken by 60 million of the roughly 180 million people in Nigeria . Communication in the English language is much more popular in the country's urban communities than it is in the rural areas, due to colonisation . </P> <P> The other major languages are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Urhobo, Ibibio, Edo, Fulfulde, Kanuri, and Igala . Nigeria's linguistic diversity is a microcosm of much of Africa as a whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African languages families: Afroasiatic, Nilo - Saharan and Niger--Congo . Nigeria also has several as - yet unclassified languages, such as Centúúm, which may represent a relic of an even greater diversity prior to the spread of the current language families . </P> <P> Niger--Congo predominates in the Central, East and Southern areas of Nigeria; the main branches represented in Nigeria are Mande, Atlantic, Gur, Kwa, Benue--Congo and Adamawa--Ubangi . Mande is represented by the Busa cluster and Kyenga in the northwest . Fulfulde is the single Atlantic language, of Senegambian origin but now spoken by cattle pastoralists across the Sahel and largely in the northeastern states of Nigeria, especially Adamawa . </P>

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