Nigerian languages listed according to states


Here is a list of the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory with the number of languages spoken in each state. From this page you can jump to the individual pages for the different states and find out which languages are spoken in them, in which local government areas the languages are spoken, which are the major languages and which are minority languages.
 
Abia State    1
Adamawa State  58
Anambra State     3
Akwa Ibom State   20
Bauchi State   60
Bayelsa State   10 
Benue State   14
Borno State   28
Cross River State   50
Delta State   11
Ebonyi State     5 
Edo State   17 
Ekiti State     1
Enugu State     1
Gombe State   21
Imo State     1
Jigawa State    4
Kaduna State   57 
Kano State     4
Katsina State     2
Kebbi State   16
Kogi State     8
Kwara State     7 
Lagos State     2
Nasarawa State  29
Niger State   38
Ogun State     1
Ondo State   10
Osun State     1 
Oyo State     1
Plateau State  48
Rivers State   23
Sokoto State    2 
Taraba State  73
Yobe State     9
Zamfara State     1
Federal Capital Territory     9

 
 
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Dr. Uwe Seibert

Department of Languages and Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
University of Jos
Email address: seibertu@unijos.edu.ng
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