Datapoint Nigerian Pidgin/Increasing use
Given the fact that Nigeria has a population of approximately 150 million, the majority of whom are below 25 years of age, and the fact that Nigerian Pidgin has become the de facto lingua franca of the country, Nigerian Pidgin has been acquiring speakers, both young and old, extremely rapidly. While the estimates stood at some 50 million Nigerian Pidgin speakers in 1985, the estimate in 2010 is well over 75 million speakers. Nigerian Pidgin is therefore the African language with the greatest number of speakers, the pidgin/creole language with the greatest number of speakers, and the fastest growing pidgin/creole language in the world.
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