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Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] ... South Africa: 30 12 42
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
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.
A case in point is the Bantu expansion, in which Bantu-speaking peoples expanded over most of Sub-Equatorial Africa, intermingling with Khoi-San speaking peoples from much of Southeast Africa and Southern Africa and other peoples from Central Africa.
South Africa has the largest population of white people in Africa. [63] The Boers or Afrikaners, the British diaspora and the Coloureds (multiracial) are the largest European-descended groups in Africa today. Afrikaner children in Namibia Narendra Modi greeting members of the Indian community in Nairobi, Kenya A Coloured family in Cape Town ...
Dholuo language of the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, Kenya's fourth largest ethnicity after the Bantu-speaking Agĩkũyũ, Luhya and the Southern Nilotic-speaking Kalenjin (the term "Luo" is also used for a wider group of languages which includes Dholuo.). Kanuri (4.0 million, all dialects; 4.7 million if Kanembu is included).
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani ...