where in africa do they speak french?
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In Africa, French is often spoken alongside indigenous languages, but in a number of urban areas (in particular in Central Africa and in the ports located on the Gulf of Guinea) it has become a first language, such as in the region of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in the urban areas of Douala and Yaoundé in Cameroon or in ...
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The four national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo (EN, FR) While French is the official language and widely used in education and government, there are four national languages: Kituba (Kikongo), Lingala, Swahili, and Tshiluba.
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Niger has 11 official languages, with French being the official language and Hausa the most spoken language.
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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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There are an estimated 2,000 languages spoken in Africa. The American linguist Joseph Greenberg argued that they fall into six major linguistic families: Afroasiatic stretches from North Africa to the Horn of Africa and Southwest Asia.
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['SWAHILI. The most spoken language in Africa is Swahili which is said to have over 100 million speakers. ... ', 'AMHARIC. Amharic is the main language spoken in Ethiopia by over 20 million speakers. ... ', 'YORUBA. ... ', 'OROMO. ... ', 'Hausa. ... ', 'IGBO. ... ', 'ZULU. ... ', 'SHONA.']
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France has been holding the national reserves of fourteen african countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
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#2. France has been holding the national reserves of fourteen african countries since 1961: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
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There are a total of 29 countries where French is the official language. French is the only official language for 13 of these countries, while French is the co-official language of 16 countries. The most populous country where French is the official language is the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.
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French and English are the official languages of Cameroon. Eight out of the ten regions of the nation, housing 83% of the population of Cameroon, are francophones.
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The official language is French. Two indigenous languages were designated politically as national languages in 1975: Ewé (Ewe: Èʋegbe) and Kabiyé. The two national languages tend to be used regionally: Ewé in the south from Lomé to Blitta, and Kabiye from Blitta to Dapaong in the north.
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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 a Bantu language spoken mainly in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and also in Burundi, Mozambique, Oman, Somalia the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa by about 98 million people. Swahili is an official language of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and is used as a lingua franca throughout East Africa.
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While Arabic is the most spoken language in Africa, there's plenty more – other popular languages include Amharic, Berber, Portuguese, Oromo, Igbo, Yoruba, Zulu and Shona.
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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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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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According to the Eurobarometer report 2012, 39% of the French population speaks English. That includes people living in the countryside. Which means that in a big city like Paris or Bordeaux where there are a lot of tourists, the percentage of people speaking English is likely to be much higher.