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Sure people know of Zulu, Swahili and maybe Afrikaans, but there could be as many as 300 languages in just one African country, and only 3 or 4 are official. This is just a few more languages that exist in Africa.

Category: Languages

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Yoruba is a Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa. It is a tonal language spoken by the Yoruba people in Nigeria Benin, and Togo and it dates to deep prehistory. As a continuum of several ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Sango (also spelled: Sangho) is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it had approximately 1,600,000 to 5,000,000 second-language speakers as of the early 1970s, but only about ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Called an Afro-Asiatic language, Oromo is the most populous langiage in Ethopia. It is also spoken in Somalia and parts of Kenya. 95 percent of the speakers live in Ethiopia, mainly in the Oromia ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Arabic in Algeria, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, and Tunisia Berber in Morocco and Algeria Somali in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

A Rwandan official language, spoken by some 12 million people in Rwanda. Kinyarwanda uses 16 of the bantu noun classes (a category of nouns used in the bantu languages).

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

With the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 34 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 52 million people, Hausa makes ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Fulfulde is a language of West Africa. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Wolof, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken as a first language by ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

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