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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]
The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties , such as Arabic , Lahnda , Persian , Malay , Pashto , and Chinese .
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 . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
(Top) 1 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Category: Languages of Africa. 96 languages. ... Language isolates of Africa (2 C, 10 P) Niger–Congo languages (14 C ...
(Top) 1 Number of living ... 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. ...
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Within the Nilo-Saharan languages are a number of languages with at least a million speakers (most data from SIL's Ethnologue 16 (2009)). In descending order: Luo (Dholuo, 4.4 million). Dholuo language of the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, Kenya's third largest ethnicity after the Bantu-speaking Agĩkũyũ and Luhya).
Languages of South Africa (12 C, 64 P) Languages of South Sudan (2 C, 58 P) Languages of Sudan (9 C, 64 P) T. Languages of Tanzania (3 C, 114 P) Languages of Tunisia ...