{"id":18708,"date":"2026-05-20T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18708"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:04:57","slug":"nigerian-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/05\/20\/nigerian-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian English"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about the variety of different Englishes that are spoken around the world, and at some point I hope to write more about that. But for now, just a couple of resources about a specific English:<\/p>\r\n<p>As a US English speaker who sometimes reads fiction written by Nigerians, I\u2019ve been wishing for good resources about Nigerian English. I recently found some that look useful:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/weng.12732\">Nigerian English: History, functions and features<\/a>\u201d (2025), by Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi and Sopuruchi Christian Aboh (published in <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/1467971x\"><cite>World Englishes<\/cite><\/a>, \u201can English language and linguistics journal dedicated to empirical research on the global context of Englishes in the cultural, linguistic, and social realms.\u201d)<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/discover\/introduction-to-nigerian-english\">Introduction to Nigerian English<\/a> in the <cite>Oxford English Dictionary<\/cite>, part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/discover\/world-englishes\">World English Hub<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigerian_English\">Nigerian English<\/a> article in Wikipedia.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18710,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}