Category:African
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African languages are divided into five major language families:afro-asiatic,nilo-saharan,niger-kordofanian,khoi-san and austronesian.It is estimated that there are between 2000 and 3000 languages spoken on the African continent, and as many as 8000 dialects.Not all have writing systems and to speak some of them simply means to whistle.
South Africa has 11 official languages: English --it influenced african languages and it also uses african languages based words Afrikaans -- its roots in 17th century Dutch IsiNdebele-- the language of the Ndebele people, is one of South Africa's four Nguni languages IsiXhosa--South Africa's second-largest language IsiZulu-- is the language of South Africa's largest ethnic group, the Zulu people Sepedi--mostly spoken in the province of Limpopo Sesotho--spoken in the country of Lesotho Setswana--spoken mostly in Botswana SiSwati--the language of the Swazi nation Tshivenda--the language of the Venda people Xitsonga--spoken by Tsonga people, last people to came to african continet East Africa's most spoken language is Kiswahili(Swahili), a Bantu language.Its estimated to be spoken by 50 000 000 people.This makes it the most widely spread language on the African continent.Countries where Swahili is spoken: Tanzania,Kenya,Uganda( its the national language for this first three countries), Rwanda,Somalia,DRC,Mozambique and Burundi.
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