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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
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [42] ... South African Sign Language. South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, ...
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.