are there any african countries that speak spanish?
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Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language.
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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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French is an official language, or shares official status with other languages in Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin, Burundi, Guinea, Chad, Rwanda, Congo, Mali, the Seychelles, Djibouti and Senegal.
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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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The only official language is Spanish, but English Garifuna and various indigenous languages are also spoken. only 3% of the population has a maternal language that is not Spanish, and of these, 90% speak Spanish as their second language.
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English, French and Portuguese are important languages in Africa. About 130 million, 115 million and 35 million Africans, respectively, speak them as either native or secondary languages.
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Language families We're going to look at five: Afroasiatic languages: This includes Arabic, Somali, Berber, Hausa, Amharic, and Oromo. These are spoken in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel (where the Sahara becomes savanna).
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['Angola.', 'Benin.', 'Botswana.', 'Burkina Faso.', 'Burundi.', 'Cameroon.', 'Central African Republic.', 'Chad.']
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Where is Swahili spoken? Swahili has official language status in Tanzania and Kenya and is also widely spoken in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Comoros Islands. It's also spoken by smaller numbers in Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.
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The official language spoken in the Dominican Republic is Spanish. However, dialects are spoken across the country. The local dialect of the Dominican Republic is called Dominican Spanish and has some African influences. Moreover, it has borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.
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Most languages spoken in Africa belong to one of four language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan.
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Spanish is the official languages in all South American countries except Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guinea, and is spoken even in country that are not historically Spanish. Portuguese is the official language in Brazil.
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Of the 890 million Africans (as of 2005), about 17% speak an Arabic dialect. About 10% speak Swahili, the lingua franca of Southeastern Africa, about 5% speak a Berber dialect, and about 5% speak Hausa, a West African lingua franca. Other important West African languages are Yoruba, Igbo and Fula.
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Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name evokes its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea. Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language.
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The official language spoken in Argentina is Spanish (Español, not Castellano).
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Potential members and observers Only one Arabic-speaking country remains outside of the League: Chad. Meanwhile, Malta, Eritrea and South Sudan, despite historical links, do not speak Arabic as an official language.