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The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are: Niger–Congo, which include the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast and Southern Africa. Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... South Africa: 30 12 42 0.59 51,004,892 1,416,803
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
Owing to the country's geographical setting, knowledge of French (an official language in much of West Africa) is relatively widespread. Mandinka is spoken as a first language by 38% of the population, Pulaar by 21%, Wolof by 18%, Soninke by 9%, Jola by 4.5%, Serer by 2.4%, Manjak and Bainouk by 1.6% each, Guinean Creole by 1%, and English by 0.5%.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
The official language of Botswana is English, while Setswana is widely spoken across the country. [1] In Setswana, prefixes are more important than they are in many other languages, because Setswana is a Bantu language and has noun classes denoted by these prefixes.
Co-official language, along with Somali: Africa 8 Puntland: 1,285,000: Co-official language, along with Somali: Africa 9 Rojava (also called Democratic Federation of Northern Syria) 4,600,000: Co-official language, along with Kurdish and Syriac: Asia 10: South West State of Somalia: 2,000,000: Co-official language, along with Somali: Africa 11 ...
Unclassified languages by continent (6 C) A. Languages of Africa (22 C, 18 P) Languages of the Americas (9 C) Languages of Asia (21 C, 3 P) C.