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These interesting facts will help you learn more about our planet, movies, languages, and animals. ... Interesting facts for adults. ... Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres.
The Scottish language has 421 words for “snow.” ... Interesting Facts for Adults. 11. If you cut down a cactus in Arizona, it can result in a class 4 felony and up to 25 years in prison ...
The following list names English words that originate from African languages. Adinkra – from Akan, visual symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms. Andriana – from Malagasy, aristocratic noble class of the Kingdom of Madagascar; apartheid – from Afrikaans, "separateness" Aṣẹ - from Yoruba, "I affirm" or "make it happen"
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Hombert & Philippson (2009) [19] list a number of African languages that have been classified as language isolates at one point or another. Many of these are simply unclassified, but Hombert & Philippson believe Africa has about twenty language families, including isolates. Beside the possibilities listed above, there are:
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani ...
Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages. British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars. Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa. Afrikaans words have unusual ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".