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After gaining independence, many African countries, in the search for national unity, selected one language, generally the former Indo-European colonial language, to be used in government and education. However, in recent years, African countries have become increasingly supportive of maintaining linguistic diversity.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... South Africa: 30 12 42 0.59 51,004,892 1,416,803
Chad: French and Arabic (both official) [3] + more than 100 African languages. Democratic Republic of the Congo: French (official) + Lingala, Kongo, Swahili & Tshiluba (national languages) [4] + 238 other languages. Equatorial Guinea: Spanish, French and Portuguese are the official languages of the country. [5]
Category: Languages of Africa by country. ... Languages of the Central African Republic (1 C, 45 P) Languages of Chad (2 C, 133 P) Languages of the Comoros (1 C, 7 P)
constituent country: Dutch is the official language. [16] Only Friesland and the Caribbean Netherlands have co-official languages. Friesland: province: Dutch is a co-official language, together with West Frisian [15] Bonaire: municipality: Dutch is a co-official language, together with Papiamento [15] Sint Eustatius: municipality
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Languages of Africa by country (43 C) Languages of the African diaspora (4 C, 48 P) * Language isolates of Africa (2 C, 10 P) Niger–Congo languages (14 C, 20 P)
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)