what are the different languages spoken in africa?
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Arabic, Somali, Berber, Amharic, Oromo, Igbo, Swahili, Hausa, Manding, Fulani and Yoruba are spoken by tens of millions of people. Twelve dialect clusters (which may group up to a hundred linguistic varieties) are spoken by 75 percent, and fifteen by 85 percent, of Africans as a first or additional language.
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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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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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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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French is the official language** in Belgium, Benin, Burkina, Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central, African, Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte, d'Ivoire, Democratic, Republic, of, the, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial, Guinea, France, Guinea, Haiti, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Republic, of, the, Congo, ...
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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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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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Togo is a multilingual country, which according to one count has 44 languages spoken. The official language is French. Two indigenous languages were designated politically as national languages in 1975: Ewé (Ewe: Èʋegbe) and Kabiyé.
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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 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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It is the most widely spoken language, although English is the official language of Nigeria. In addition to English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, and English Creole are widely spoken.
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Malawi, unlike many African countries that have hundreds of languages, has about 16 living languages. Most of these languages consist of very few speakers.
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However, the remaining language groups are well-represented as the continental sub-region is home to native speakers of over 500 languages. West African languages have the largest concentration of first and second-language speakers on the continent, after Amharic and Swahili in East Africa.
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['Afrikaans.', 'English.', 'Sepedi.', 'Sesotho.', 'Southern Ndebele.', 'Swazi.', 'Tsonga.', 'Tswana.']
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South Africa's Constitution recognises 11 official languages: Sepedi (also known as Sesotho sa Leboa), Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
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Kenya --Languages. The official languages of Kenya are English and Swahili. English is the language of big business, higher education and government.
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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.