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  2. Languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Although many African languages are used on the radio, in newspapers and in primary-school education, and some of the larger ones are considered national languages, only a few are official at the national level. In Sub-Saharan Africa, most official languages at the national level tend to be colonial languages such as French, Portuguese, or English.

  3. List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch ...

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    However, between 1925 and 1984 Dutch and Afrikaans were seen as two varieties of the same language by the Official Languages of the Union Act, 1925 and later article 119 of the South African Constitution of 1961. After a short period (1984-1994) where Afrikaans and English were the two co-official languages of South Africa, Afrikaans has been ...

  4. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Official languages of sovereign countries, wholly or partly subsection. ... (called Tajiki in Tajikistan; ... South African Sign Language. South Africa ...

  6. Lists of countries and territories by official language

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    Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.

  7. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    Central African Republic: 72 11 83 ... This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three or more official languages ...

  8. List of multilingual countries and regions - Wikipedia

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    However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together different ethnics and languages in Indonesia.

  9. Languages of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.