Zulu & Swahili are among the best-known languages of this African language group
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Bantu languages - Wikipedia  The Bantu languages technically the Narrow Bantu languages constitute a traditional branch of ... The Bantu languages descend from a common Proto-Bantu language, which is believed to .... Most languages are best known in English without the class prefix (Swahili, ... Sotho (Sesotho) (1.8 million); Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000).
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Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa - Culture - Nigeria  Swahili is most widely spoken African language. Swahili is spoken in these countries: Tanzania 99%, Kenya 87%, Uganda 85%, Burundi 55%,...
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Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in Africa 2016  Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in Africa: The people of this large continent use a ... Nigeria alone has 250 languages, one of the greatest concentrations of ... According to Ethnologue, Zulu is the second most spoken Bantu language after Shona. ... other countries ,I think Swahili is the second largest in Africa after English.
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Languages of Africa - Wikipedia  There are 1,250 to 2,100 and by some counts over 3,000 languages spoken natively in Africa. .... The NigerCongo family is the largest language group spoken in Africa and perhaps the ... Some neighboring Bantu languages (notably Xhosa and Zulu) have clicks as well, but these were adopted from Khoisan languages.
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Swahili language | African language | Britannica.com  Bantu language spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second ... form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. ... ...had not reached the Cape of Good Hope when the Dutch arrived there in the 17th century. The close linguistic similarity among the Bantu languages points to the...
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The languages of South Africa - SouthAfrica.info  Sesotho is another of South Africa's three Sotho languages, ... It is the language of the Free State, which borders the kingdom of ... Sesotho is spoken by 62.6% of the Free State population, with ... The original written form was based on the Tlokwa dialect, but today is mostly based on the Kwena and...
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The languages of South Africa - SouthAfrica.info  We're not called the rainbow nation for nothing. South Africa has 11 official languages, and scores of unofficial ones. .... Initially known as Cape Dutch, Afrikaans was largely a spoken language for people living in the Cape, ... English has been both a highly influential language in South Africa, and a language influenced,...
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List of lingua francas - Wikipedia  This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make .... It has now been institutionalised as an official language of the Central African ... Swahili, known as Kiswahili to its speakers, is used throughout large parts of ... Arabic remains the lingua franca for 23 countries (25 with the Palestinian...
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South Africa's languages - MediaClubSouthAfrica.com  Afrikaans; English; Ndebele; Xhosa; Zulu; Sotho sa Leboa; Sotho; Tswana; Swati ... Besides the official languages, scores of others - African, European, Asian and more - are ... Most South Africans are multilingual, able to speak more than one language. ... Afrikaans is the third most common language in South Africa.
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HOME - Home  ... a mixture of Arabic and Bantu languages, and Swahili is a Bantu language. ... The most commonly mentioned numbers are 50, 80, and 100 million people. ... in which the language is spoken, as well as the percentage of its speakers in ... It is probably the most widely used African language in radio broadcasts in the world.
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Kenya Language - Swahili | English | Ethnic Languages  Even illiterate Kenyans know some basic Swahili. The purest form of ... Kikuyu is the language of the Kikuyu people, Kenya's largest ethnic group. It is closely ... Polite Expressions. Thank you, Asante. I love you ... Tafadhali nipatie... Please...
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Swahili: On the coasts of the world | Unravel Magazine  Jun 2, 2015 ... Swahili, or Kiswahili, is spoken along the East African coast, largely in Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, and Mozambique. ... Incidentally, the word Swahili comes from the Arabic suwahil, meaning 'of the coast' [3]. Swahili is one of the few African languages that doesn't have a system of tones.
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African Languages  African Languages, group of languages that are native to Africa. ... Swahili is spoken by nearly 50 million people, most of whom live in East and Central Africa. ... Bantu languages, one of its branches, have more than 90 million speakers. ... group, Fulfulde, has more than 13 million speakers in Senegal, Cameroon, and Chad...
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Languages of Africa - Wikipedia  There are 1,250 to 2,100 and by some counts over 3,000 languages spoken natively in Africa. They are divided into six major language families: .... Since the colonial era, Indo-European languages such as Afrikaans, English, French, ... Ubangian, some 70 languages, including the languages of the Central African Republic.
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The Languages of the World, Third Edition  Dec 2, 2015 ... sands of different languages, the great majority spoken by tiny .... Luo, Dinka, Nuer, ...... Beja is an important language of southern Sudan. .... Inca civilizations. ...... consistent rules, reproducing the actual sounds of the language is ...... teeyee k_a;h tle;il yu;h a;h k_oosu.at&ee ye;i-dei doo yu;tx&ee ten...
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Kenya Language - Swahili | English | Ethnic Languages  English is Kenya's official language, then traditional tongues. ... Knowledge of Swahili becomes even more essential if you plan to stay or work outside of ... The Kikuyu language is widely spoken in Kenyan towns, even by members of other ethnic groups. ... The two biggest Luhya sub-tribes are the Maragoli and the Bukusu.
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Swahili Language - Wiki  The word "Swahili" was used by early Arab visitors to the coast and it means "the ... Swahili belongs to the Bantu family of languages spoken throughout east, ... and is a national and official language in Tanzania and Kenya which means that .... The name comes from the plural sawahili of the Arabic word sahil, which means...
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Prioritizing African Languages: Challenges to macro-level planning ...  Jul 5, 2011 ... 2. Purvis, Green, & Iverson spoken in Africa, wondering, in exasperation, Where to begin? ... by the fact that, for one reason or another, the entire continent is of- ... In terms of linguistic diversity, there are over 800 ethnic ... spoken, and number of languages with more than three million ...... Kikuyu/Gikuyu m.
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African Languages  Modern Standard Arabic is the official language, used in public, official, formal .... Rundi is the mother tongue of over 99 percent of the population in Burundi. ... Swahili is spoken as a second language by an estimated ten percent of the population. ... The majority of the population are of mixed African and European descent...
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Spoken languages of African countries - Nations Online Project  List of official, national and spoken languages of Africa. Africa is a ... Somali, Afar. Egypt, Arabic, English and French widely understood by educated classes.
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Spoken languages of African countries - Nations Online Project  covering the two third of Africa with as a principal branch the Niger-Congo which gathers more than 1000 languages with some 200 millions speakers.