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  2. Languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:Languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Languages of Africa by country (56 C) Languages of the African diaspora (5 C, 48 P) *

  5. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    Swahili is the most widespread lingua franca in East Africa. [21] In Congo, the local dialect of Swahili is known as Congo Swahili and differs considerably from Standard Swahili. [22] Many variations of Congo Swahili are spoken in the country but the major one is Kingwana, sometimes called Copperbelt Swahili, especially in the Katanga area.

  7. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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    Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions of people in the five African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania), where it is an official or national language. It is also the first language for many people in Tanzania, especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi.

  8. Category:Languages of Africa by country - Wikipedia

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    Category: Languages of Africa by country. ... Printable version; In other projects ... Languages of South Africa (12 C, 64 P)

  9. Songhay languages - Wikipedia

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    In Mali, the government has officially adopted the dialect of Gao (east of Timbuktu) as the dialect to be used as a medium of primary education. [4] Some Songhay languages have little to no mutual intelligibility between each other. For example, Koyraboro Senni, spoken in Gao, is unintelligible to speakers of Zarma in Niger, according to ...