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Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions of people in the five African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania), where it is an official or national language. It is also the first language for many people in Tanzania, especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi.
The PALOP, highlighted in red. The Portuguese-speaking African countries (Portuguese: Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; PALOP), also known as Lusophone Africa, consist of six African countries in which the Portuguese language is an official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and, since 2011, Equatorial Guinea. [1]
Contemporary East African countries also hold conflicting opinions on Standard Swahili: some see it as a colonial construct that foreign governments forced upon them, others prefer English as a medium for schooling (even in Tanzania where Swahili is the language of the Parliament, English dominated in secondary and tertiary education), yet many ...
It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users. Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most ...
Portuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in five African countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique. It also has official status in Equatorial Guinea where it is a minority language spoken in the province of Annobón. There are Portuguese-speaking communities ...
Swahili and English, the latter being inherited from colonial rule (see Tanganyika Territory), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They serve as working languages in the country, with Swahili being the official national language. [1] There are more speakers of Swahili than English in Tanzania. [2]
Portuguese Speaking World - Countries and Territories where portuguese is spoken - Native Language in Dark Green. The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono) or the Lusosphere, comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.
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, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2]