Languages

Nigerian Pidgin

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Nigerian Pidgin." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/nigerian-pidgin.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Nigerian Pidgin. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/nigerian-pidgin

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-nigerian-pidgin,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Nigerian Pidgin},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/nigerian-pidgin},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Nigerian Pidgin, also known simply as Pidgin or as Naija in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca or vehicular language across Nigeria.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

pcm 1

Speaker Count

121,000,000 1

Ethnologue combines about 4.7 million first-language speakers with about 116 million second-language speakers, 2020.

Region

Nigeria; also spoken in parts of West and Central Africa including Benin, Ghana and Cameroon 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

English-based Creole

Source Wikipedia: Nigerian Pidgin

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Nigerian Pidgin

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Nigerian Pidgin or NPE, also known simply as Pidgin or as Naija in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca or vehicular language across Nigeria.

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1. Wikipedia: Nigerian Pidgin

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