nigeria-languages

A standalone package containing a comprehensive list of Nigerian languages and associated metadata. It is designed for use in web applications (dropdowns, select inputs, language pickers, etc.) and works equally well in Node or browser environments.

The package simply exports an array of language objects. Each entry has at least the following properties:

• name – human‑readable language name
• code – two‑letter identifier (unique)
• type – classification (official, indigenous, creole, etc.)
• info – short descriptive text
• otherNames – optional array of alternative names

Installation

npm install nigeria-languages
# or
# yarn add nigeria-languages

Usage

const languages = require('nigeria-languages');

// build options for a <select>
const options = languages.map(l => ({ label: l.name, value: l.code }));

// look up a language by code
const hausa = languages.find(l => l.code === 'ha');
console.log(hausa.name); // "Hausa"

TypeScript consumers may import JSON directly:

import languages from 'nigeria-languages/languages.json';

Development

To regenerate the bundled languages.json from the root dataset, run this repository's root build script (it currently simply copies lang.json).

License

MIT