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The Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. [citation needed] One of its salient features is an elaborate noun class system with grammatical concord. A large majority of languages of this family are tonal such as Yoruba and Igbo, Akan and Ewe ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd ... Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2 ... Aruba: 4 2 6 0. ...
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. 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 ...
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
official language(s) Current spoken language(s) Historically belonged to Historical official language(s) Historical spoken language(s) Time period Continent 1 Afghanistan: Pashto, Dari: Pashto, Dari, various others: Umayyad Caliphate: Arabic: Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, Central Asian Arabic: 661–750: Asia 2 Armenia: Armenian: Armenian ...
1,367,703,110 [1] Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English. Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India. Pakistan: Asia 220,892,331 [2] Urdu is co-official with English. South Africa: Africa 59,622,350 [3]
A Luo language, one of the major languages of Uganda. Dinka (1.4 million). The major ethnicity of South Sudan. Acholi (1.2 million). Another Luo language of Uganda. Nuer (1.1 million in 2011, significantly more today). The language of the Nuer, another numerous people from South Sudan and Ethiopia. Maasai (1.0 million). Spoken by the Maasai ...
Yoruba (US: / ˈ j ɔːr ə b ə /, [2] UK: / ˈ j ɒr ʊ b ə /; [3] Yor. Èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. Yoruba speakers number roughly 47 million, including about 2 million second-language ...