what languages are spoken in africa?
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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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The total number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at "over 3,000".
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['Swahili: Swahili, known as Kiswahili in the native tongue, is a Bantu language spoken by some 150 million Africans in the African Great Lakes region in Central and Southern Africa. ... ', 'Arabic: ... ', 'French: ... ', 'Hausa: ... ', 'Yoruba: ... ', 'Oromo: ... ', 'Igbo: ... ', 'Amharic:']
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According to Statistics South Africa, only 8.4% of South African households speak English – that's just 4.7 million people in a country of 56 million. English is only the sixth-most common home language in the country, after Zulu (24.7%), Xhosa (15.6%), Afrikaans (12.1%), Sepedi (9.8%), and Setswana (8.9%).
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['Hamitic (Berber, Cushitic) + Semitic (Ethiopian, Arabic)', 'Hausa (Chadic)', 'Bantu.', '"Guinean" (Volta-Niger, Kwa, Kru)', '"Western Bantoid" (Atlantic)', '"Central Bantoid" (Gur, Senufo)', '"Eastern Bantoid" (Southern Bantoid)', 'Mande.']
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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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['Afrikaans.', 'English.', 'Sepedi.', 'Sesotho.', 'Southern Ndebele.', 'Swazi.', 'Tsonga.', 'Tswana.']
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There are eleven official languages in South Africa. These are Afrikaans, English, Ndebele (isiNdebele), Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Southern Sotho (Sesotho), Swati (siSwati), Tsonga (Xitsonga), Tswana (Setswana), Venda (Tshivenda), Xhosa (isiXhosa) and Zulu (isiZulu).
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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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Most African Arabic speakers live in North Africa, where Arabic is the majority language. They speak local Arabic dialects, but Modern Standard Arabic is used in writing and in the media.
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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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Malawi is a multilingual country. Although English is the official language, the 2008 Census reports that only 26 percent of the population above the age of 14 is able to speak English. Other major languages spoken in Malawi include: Chewa, Yao, Tonga, Sena, and Elomwe.
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Languages are spoken in the Limpopo Province, South Africa The primary home language in Limpopo is Sesotho, which is spoken by about half the population living in this area of South Africa, followed by Tshivenda and Xitsonga.
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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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Sudan has over 115 languages, and no one of these is spoken by all Sudanese. Arabic is the official language (Ibid.). According to a 1955-56 census, Arabic and its dialects (spoken by 51 per cent of Sudanese) and Dinka and its dialects (spoken by 11 per cent of Sudanese) are the two dominant languages.
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Kenya is a multilingual country. The Bantu Swahili language and English, the latter being inherited from colonial rule (see British Kenya), are widely spoken as lingua franca. They serve as the two official working languages.
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Other important West African languages are Yoruba, Igbo and Fula. Major Horn of Africa languages are Somali, Amharic and Oromo.