Nigerian English

Nigerian English, also asked as Nigerian specifics English, is the dialect of English spoken in Nigeria. Based on British English, the dialect contains various loanwords as well as collocations from the native languages of Nigeria, due to the need to express abstraction specific to the culture of the nation e.g. senior wife.

Nigerian Pidgin, a pidgin derived from English, is mostly used in informal conversations, but the Nigerian specifics English is used in politics, formal education, the media, in addition to other official uses.

Use in technology

In July 2019, Google announced its new Nigerian English accented voice for Maps, Google Assistant, together with other Google products. it is for based on cause of speech synthesis created by a team at Google led by Nigerian linguist Kola Tubosun. In January 2020, Oxford English Dictionary added over two dozen new words of Nigerian English into the Oxford Dictionary.