🇳🇪 Country

Niger

Niger is home to 29 languages, spoken across West Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Niamey

Nationality Nigerien

Currency West African CFA Franc (XOF)

Languages 29

Independence Aug 3, 1960

27 active 2 endangered 0 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Niger; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Niger

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