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AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR FAMILIES
What is Language?
language is a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
What is Language family?
A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage.
AFRICAN LANGUAGES FAMILIES
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue),one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are:
Niger-Congo, which includes the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast, and Southern Africa.
Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel. Saharan, Nilotic, and Central Sudanic languages (previously grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family) are present in East Africa and Sahel.
Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe-Kwadi languages are spoken principally in Namibia and Botswana.
MAIN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR FAMILY.
Hausa(Afro-Asiatic)
Swahili(Niger-Congo)
Amharic(Afro-Asiatic)
Yoruba(Niger-congo)
Igbo(Niger-congo)
Oromo(Afro-Asiatic)
Zulu(Niger-congo)
Shona(Niger-congo)
Somali(Afro-Asiatic)
Berber(Afro-Asiatic)
Fulfulde (Niger-congo)
Xhosa(Niger-congo
Malagasy(Austronesian)
Kanuri (Nilo-Saharan)
What is Language?
language is a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
What is Language family?
A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage.
AFRICAN LANGUAGES FAMILIES
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue),one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are:
Niger-Congo, which includes the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast, and Southern Africa.
Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel. Saharan, Nilotic, and Central Sudanic languages (previously grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family) are present in East Africa and Sahel.
Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe-Kwadi languages are spoken principally in Namibia and Botswana.
MAIN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR FAMILY.
Hausa(Afro-Asiatic)
Swahili(Niger-Congo)
Amharic(Afro-Asiatic)
Yoruba(Niger-congo)
Igbo(Niger-congo)
Oromo(Afro-Asiatic)
Zulu(Niger-congo)
Shona(Niger-congo)
Somali(Afro-Asiatic)
Berber(Afro-Asiatic)
Fulfulde (Niger-congo)
Xhosa(Niger-congo
Malagasy(Austronesian)
Kanuri (Nilo-Saharan)
