approximately how many languages are spoken in africa?
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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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The most common language spoken as a first language by South Africans is Zulu (23 percent), followed by Xhosa (16 percent), and Afrikaans (14 percent).
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3. Ethiopia is the only country in Africa with its own indigenous written alphabet. Ethiopia's national language is Amharic, but there are over 82 languages and 200 dialects spoken in the country.
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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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Immigration has added sizeable communities of speakers of African and Asian languages, amounting to about 4% of the population, with Arabic being the most widely spoken of them. Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: French, Italian, German, English, and Russian.
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There are over 500 native languages spoken in Nigeria.
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The three remaining major languages of Subsaharan Africa are Swahili, Lingala, and Zulu.
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The official languages of the Central African Republic are French and Sangho. In total there are about 72 languages in the country.
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Nigeria: And the African country with the most languages is… Nigeria. The official language is English, while 24 million people speak Igbo.
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What are the world's most spoken languages? Well, roughly 6,500 languages are spoken in the world today. Each and every one of them make the world a diverse and beautiful place.
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The Languages of Uganda There are currently approximately 40 different languages currently being used in Uganda. Following independence, English became Uganda's official language, with Ugandan English being a local variant dialect.
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Niger has 11 official languages, with French being the official language and Hausa the most spoken language. Depending on how they are counted, Niger has between 8 and 20 indigenous languages.
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Three of the six dominant languages in Subsaharan Africa—spoken by at least ten million people or more—are spoken in Nigeria: Hausa, Yoruba, and Ibo. The three remaining major languages of Subsaharan Africa are Swahili, Lingala, and Zulu.
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The languages spoken there reflect ancient settlement patterns, migrations, and its long history. Ethnologue counts more than 80 languages. Of these, French is the official language and Bambara is the most widely spoken. Altogether 13 of the indigenous languages of Mali have the legal status of national language.
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There is immense diversity within the 750 million people in Subsaharan Africa, and within each country are cultural and ethnic groups with their own history, language, and religion. More than two thousand separate and distinct languages are spoken in all of Africa. Forty are spoken by more than a million people.
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With more than 2,000 distinct languages, Africa has a third of the world's languages with less than a seventh of the world's population. By comparison, Europe, which has about an eighth of the world's population, has only about 300 languages. Africa's linguistic diversity can even be found among individual Africans.
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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.