The official language of Nigeria is English. Other widely spoken languages in the country include Hausa (which was the official language in the north for much of the 1950s and ’60s), Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, and English Creole.
The Indigenous languages of Nigeria are classified into three broad linguistic groups: Niger-Congo, which includes the Yoruba language; Nilo-Saharan; and Afro-Asiatic, which includes the Hausa language.