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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:17, 16 December 2010: 1,534 × 1,461 (750 KB): Brianski: Color Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea), as well as São Tome and Principe, acccording to ethnologue.
After gaining independence, many African countries, in the search for national unity, selected one language, generally the former Indo-European colonial language, to be used in government and education. However, in recent years, African countries have become increasingly supportive of maintaining linguistic diversity.
The five region according to the United Nations geoscheme for Africa. The five regions of the African Union. The five regions of the Confederation of African Football. The continent of Africa is commonly divided into five regions or subregions, four of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
There are many regional languages and dialects (the latter are often unintelligible from other dialects of the "same language"). Many high-school and college educated Pakistanis are trilingual, being able to speak English and Urdu as well as their own regional language with varying fluency. Sri Lanka. Sinhala and Tamil are official languages ...
Map of Africa for use on Wikivoyage. Multilingual: in separate layers data for language codes: en, eo, fr, nl, ru, uk. Date: 15 April 2007: Source: Own work based on the blank map of Africa: Author: Nick Roux and Peter Fitzgerald, adapted by Cacahuate, Burmesedays, Joelf, Globe-trotter, LtPowers and Piet-c. Other versions: PNG files: English ...
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." [1] English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions. Many different dialects can be identified based on these ...