| Other large ethnic groups include the Ibibio, the Ijaw, the Kanuri, the Nupe, and the Tiv. |
| The Nilotic group, by certain peculiarities, has close links with the Kanuri, which is spoken in the Bornu region. |
| Out of these 250 ethnic groups, the three major ones comprise of Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo cultures whilst the minor ones include Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, Edo and Nupe. |
| The chief languages are the Kanuri or Bornu language and Arabic. |
| All these travellers were well received by the Kanuri, whose power from the middle of the 19th century began to decay. |
| The Kanuri people led by the Sayfuwa migrated to the west and south of the lake, where they established the Bornu Empire. |
