Nigeria
1. Demography
Nigeria is the most populous country of Africa and represents a quart of the population in the West African. There is a big variety of costumes, languages, traditions between 389 ethnic groups of the country. Nigeria has a big tax of fecundity and a big population growth. There is more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria as hauçá-fulani, vorubás, igbos, ijaw, kanuris, ibibios, annangs, tiv and efik. The most common religions are Islamism and Christianity and the official language is English.
2. Igbos
They are one of the biggest ethnic African groups. They live in the East, South and Southeast of Nigeria, besides Cameroons and Equatorial Guinea. In 1967, supported by the French multinational Elf-Aquitaine, they declared the independence of the East of Nigeria, creating the Biafra Republic. There was a widespread famine in this region and a civil war that leaded to the defeat of the Igbos.
3. The Igbos language
Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria by approximately 20-25 millions of people. It is written in Latin alphabet and it is a tonal language like Chinese. There are hundreds of different dialects and languages that derive from Igbo and the most are intelligible between them, like ikwerre enuane, bende, owerri, ngwa, umuahia, nnewi, onitsha, awka, abriba, arochukwu, nsukka, mbaise, abba, ohafia, agbor, wawa okigwe, ukwa/ndoki and ekpeye. The high degree of similarity between them makes easier to form a dialect continuity.
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By: Carla, Duarte and Vânia
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