Languages/Ethnic Groups

Nigeria is the leading country in Africa with arts, culture and ethnic groups. The country has ethnic groups in 36 states with massive arts, traditions, beliefs, laws or customs. However, the country is made up of approximately 400 ethnic groups and 450 languages. There was a need for the government to merge similar groups for effective allocation of resources, whereas most of the languages are influenced by English or Hausa.

Benue State Swange dancers

We have over 6000 languages spoken in the world today, roughly 30 - 50 languages with at least 10 million first-language speakers. Each and every one of them make the world a diverse and beautiful place. Unluckily, most of the languages are less widely spoken than others or influenced by English or French. Take Busuu, for example – we're named after a language spoken by only eight people. 

Phoenix Chinese Dance

Again, commonly accepted languages worldwide, apart from English, include French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Hausa (in Nigeria West Africa)The world's commonly accepted languages are as follows:

1. English Language

2. French Language

3. Arabic/Hindi Languages

4. German

5. Spanish

6. Italian

7. Hausa (in West Africa Nigeria)

Among these languages just two are spoken worldwide (everywhere - you must find someone speaking it)

English and French 

However, when talking about languages with top population we mean languages with at least 10 million first-language speakers; we have over 60 to 80 languages listed as having at least 10 million first language speakers according to 2019 world research. Among these languages include Chinese, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Bengali, Russian, Yoruba, Telegu, Korea, Tiv, Czech, Zulu, Igbo and the rest, too numerous to mention.