what is the most commonly spoken language in africa?
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The most spoken language in Africa is Swahili which is said to have over 100 million speakers. Known as a 'Bantu' language, Swahili apparently originated from other languages like Arabic.
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The three remaining major languages of Subsaharan Africa are Swahili, Lingala, and Zulu. Colonial activity changed much of how the African countries operated economically, socially, and politically. Language is one aspect of culture that indicates a colonial relationship.
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Official languages The official written language of Botswana is English. Most written communication and official business texts are written in English. The main spoken language of Botswana is Tswana. Tswana is spoken by most of the population, often as a purely spoken language.
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Africa: Madagascar The Malagasy language, spoken by virtually all of the island's population, is classified as Austronesian.…
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Afroasiatic languages are spoken throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia and parts of the Sahel. There are approximately 375 Afroasiatic languages spoken by over 400 million people. The main subfamilies of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian and Semitic.
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Xhosa is an Nguni Bantu language, most commonly found in South Africa, spoken by around 200,000 Zimbabweans, a little over 1% of the population. Xhosa is one of Zimbabwe's official languages.
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List of official, national and spoken languages of Africa. Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages.
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The central African state has over 260 national languages, but only 40 are taught in schools. Cameroonians speak mostly French and English, which are foreign but official languages and part of an entrenched separatist conflict that has cost about 3,000 lives since 2017.
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List of official, national and spoken languages of Africa. Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages. gathering appoximately 140 languages with some eleven millions speakers scattered in Central and Eastern Africa.
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At least thirty-five languages indigenous to South Africa are spoken in the Republic, ten of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venḓa, Xhosa, Zulu and Afrikaans.
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Individual languages such as Berber, Arabic, Igbo, Swahili, Hausa, Amharic, and Yoruba are spoken by tens of millions of people. About a hundred of the languages of Africa are widely used for inter-ethnic communication.
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Swahili is an African lingua franca and shares with English the characteristics of being the most influential trans-ethnic language in East Africa. In 1972, Ladefoged estimated that 35% of Ugandans spoke Swahili fluently. Today, with no language census data, we can only paint a picture on its usage.
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Swahili is the most spoken language in Africa, with over 100 million speakers. It is a Bantu language believed to have originated from other languages, mainly Arabic, due to historical interactions between Arabs from the Middle East and East Africans.
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Swahili is an official language of people living in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and which is also widely spoken in the Eastern Africa region. ... It is the native tongue of people inhabiting Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and of communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas.
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Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population), and it is understood by over 50% of its population. It became one of South Africa's 11 official languages in 1994. According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili.
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In fact, there are a total of 16 official languages spoken in Zimbabwe, the most popular of which are English, Shona and Ndebele. DeVere Zimbabwe explores these three primary language groups in the country and the interrelations between them.