What is the language of Africa?

Question 1: What language is common in African countries? There are many languages ??in Africa, but most of them use French or English as the official or common language.

Countries in West Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, use French as their official language.

In most of East Africa and South Africa, English is the official or lingua franca.

The exceptions are Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola, whose official languages ??are Portuguese.

In addition, in North Africa, basically all languages ??can be used.

The above is limited to countries on land, excluding small island countries (Madagascar uses French as the official language). Judging from the number of countries, the proportions of English and French are about the same. This is just my rough statistics and is for reference only.

Question 2: What language do most countries in Africa speak? There are many, many languages ??in Africa, but most of them use French or English as the official or common language.

Countries in West Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, use French as their official language.

In most of East Africa and South Africa, English is the official or lingua franca.

The exceptions are Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola, whose official languages ??are Portuguese.

In addition, in North Africa, basically all languages ????can be used.

The above is limited to countries on land, excluding small island countries (Madagascar uses French as the official language). Judging from the number of countries, the proportions of English and French are about the same. This is just my rough statistics and is for reference only.

Question 3: What language is spoken in Africa? There are many small countries on the African continent.

A small country can have more than 50 African languages.

But English is still very common,

because English is spoken in South Africa.

Portuguese is spoken in some countries such as Angola and Mozambique.

Most black people doing business know English.

Question 4: What is the language of Africa! Africa is the continent with the most diverse languages ??in the world. According to various authoritative estimates, there are approximately 800 to more than 1,000 independent languages. North African languages ??are relatively unified. Although there are great differences between dialects, from Egypt to Mauritania, *** is the dominant language. The most important dialect dividing line is between the Egyptian-Sudanese dialect varieties and the Maghreb dialect varieties (from Libya to the west). Mixed with Maghreb dialects are Berber languages, mainly concentrated in Algeria and Morocco, distributed eastward to the Siwa Oasis in western Egypt, west to the Senegal-Mauritania border, and south to Southern edge of the Sahara. The situation for African languages ??in sub-Saharan Africa is more complicated. Except for the southernmost Khoisan languages ??(Bushman and Hottentot), the entire southern one-third of Africa is dominated by closely related Bantu languages. Bantu and non-Bantu languages ??intersect in the north of the Bantu-speaking area, from Cameroon through northern Say, and then through Uganda to Kenya. Bantu-speaking enclaves extend as far north as Somalia, while non-Bantu-speaking enclaves extend as far north as Tanzania.

There are more than 30 African languages ??spoken by more than 1 million people. In order to cope with the extremely complex situation of language, quite a number of Chinese lingua franca have been developed in different regions. *** has the largest number of speakers and is sometimes used as a lingua franca. Its literary language form is used by educated non-*** people, and its spoken variants are Sudanese and Chadian. Not for use by *** residents. Swahili is a Bantu language heavily influenced by Swahili. It is the official language of Tanzania and Kenya and is also a common language spoken in most of East Africa, including eastern Congo. Language, another important international language is Lingala (a Bantu language) in western Congo. Fanagalo is a pidgin-Zulu language with many loanwords from English and Afrikaner, spoken mainly among South African miners. Zanggo is a pidgin Ngebandi language with many French loanwords and is popular in Central African countries. In addition, there is Bambara-Manika language spoken in Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast; Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria and its adjacent areas.

Languages ??with a large number of speakers include Wolof, Congo (Ki-Congo) and Amharic. English and French are also widely spoken, and Portuguese and Italian are also commonly used as languages ??in the original colonies and enjoy official status. Some regional European languages ??are also spoken in many parts of Africa, such as Pidgin English, Afrikaans and various Portuguese variations.

Similar features of African languages:

Although African languages ??are very different in structure, they have extensive similarities in phonemic and grammatical features. . Phonology: Most languages ??south of the Sahara use tones to distinguish words and grammatical forms. The Bushman and Hottentot languages ??in South Africa (belonging to the Khoisan language family), as well as the South Bantu languages ??(such as Zulu, Xhosa, and Sotho) all have famous aspiration sounds. The Sandaway, Hadza, and Samye languages ??of East Africa also have aspiration sounds. In terms of grammar: some African languages ??only have root words, and a few languages ??do not even have musical affixes. These languages ??are often regarded as isolation languages. There are also some languages ????that are composed of various components into words, some are agglutinative languages, and some are inflectional languages. In some languages ??a word can even equal an entire sentence in English or other European languages. For example, in Swahili, the word hatutampiga can be used to express the sentence that we will not hurt him. Except for the Semitic languages, Hottentot languages, and Eastern Nile languages, in most African languages ??there is no grammatical distinction, only the distinction between animate and inanimate personal pronouns.

Classification of African languages:

1. Niger-Congo languages, the largest language family in sub-Saharan Africa, with 890 known languages, including thousands of dialects So many species. For example, Swahili has 17 independent dialects, 15 of which have aliases, and the colloquial form of the language has 4 nicknames. This language family can be divided into 6 lineages and related language families from northwest to southeast: (1) West Atlantic language family, with 43 languages ??distributed in the Senegal-Guinea region, the most important Wolof and Fulani (Chinese) The number of Fulanino is approximately 7.36 million). (2) The Mande language family has 26 languages. Bambara in the Mali-Guinea region and Mande in Lion Rock are the dominant languages ??(about 3.01 million people speak Mandingo and other languages). (3) The Volta language family (or the Gur language family) has 79 languages ??and is spoken in Shangfu...>>

Question 5: What language do Africans speak? Africans speak many languages, most of which have their own national language, as well as numerous ethnic, tribal and indigenous languages. In addition, since most African countries were colonies of European countries, these languages ??(mainly English, French, but also German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc.) are often used as the official languages ??of these countries. In addition, Chinese is the official language in African countries, so Chinese is also an important language in African countries.

Question 6: How many languages ??are there in Africa? Africa is a continent with a wide variety of languages, with a total of more than 800, accounting for about one-third of the world's languages. Some linguists believe that the actual number of language types in Africa far exceeds this old statistic. Only Nigeria is There are 400 registered languages ??in the country. There are 126 languages ??in the former French West Africa region. The reason why there are so many African languages ??is that there are many tribes in Africa and transportation is inconvenient. There are more than 700 known African tribes. Some tribes also have different languages ??within the same tribe due to inconvenient transportation and other reasons. The number of speakers of each language varies greatly. Large languages ??are spoken by tens of millions of people, while small languages ??only have thousands or even hundreds of speakers. African languages ??can be roughly divided into four major language families: Bantu, Sudanese, Afro-Asiatic (formerly Semitic-Hamitic) and Bushman-Hotentot. Bantu languages ??are spoken in the southern half of Africa, but there are also languages ??further north, in Sudan, and in a belt from Gambia to Ethiopia. The Sudanese language family is relatively complex, which is divided into the West Sudanese branch, the Central Sudanese branch, the central zone including the Semi-Bantu and pro-semi-Bantu branches, and the East Sudanese branch. Afro-Asiatic languages ??are mainly distributed in northern and northeastern Africa. The only minor exception is the sub-Saharan Hausa language, which also belongs to this language family. The Bushman-Hottento language family is mainly distributed in southern Africa.

In addition, Africa also has Boer (South Africa), Austronesian (Madagascar) and Khoisan languages ??that belong to the Indo-European language family. *** is the most important language in Africa. It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and is spoken in parts of Egypt, northern Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Mali. and northern equatorial Africa and the east coast of Africa. Currently, there are no accurate statistics on the number of people speaking *** in Africa. Another important language in North Africa is Berber. The Berber language is similar to the Turkish language and is now mainly spoken in the Maghreb regions such as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Amharic is the language of Ethiopia and an important language in Northeast Africa. Among the Sudanese languages, Fulani and Mandingo are the most widely spoken and widely spoken languages. Fulani is the language of the highly mobile nomadic Fulani people. Although there are not many speakers of this language, they are distributed over a wide range, from the Fouta-Jalon Plateau in Senegal to Western Sudan in northern Cameroon. There are people speaking this language in vast areas. The Mandin language is quite popular in Mali and coastal areas of West Africa. It is said that the first African language learned by European colonialists when trading slaves in West Africa was Mandinla. The Sena-Ganya region is the main inhabited area of ??the Mandingo people. French colonial troops also used this language. Among the Bantu languages, Swahili and Zulu are the most widely spoken and widely spoken languages. Swahili was originally a business language in Northeast Africa and has now become the official language of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Relevant experts are calling for it to be included in the work of the Organization of African Unity. This language is also widely spoken along the coasts of Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and Donbu, Mozambique and Donbu. Zulu is spoken in South Africa and Central Africa. But until now no country has declared Hausa an official language. Hausa is an important language in sub-Saharan Western Sudan. It is spoken in the vast area of ??Western Sudan from the shores of Lake Chad to Sierra Leone and is considered the third most spoken language in Africa after English and Swahili. The country with the largest population speaking this language is Nigeria. The language is spoken by the Hausa, Fulani and various other tribes in northern Nigeria. Hausa is also a business language in West Africa. The country with the highest proportion of speakers of this language is Niger. This language is spoken by 70% of the country's population. European languages ??are widely spoken in African cities and industrial and mining areas. Many countries still use them as official languages. Currently, 20 of the more than 50 independent countries in Africa use English as their official or common language. French is the official language in 19 countries, and Portuguese is the official language in 3 countries. There are also some countries that are considering making their national language their national language. However, due to tribal conflicts, the process of making African national languages ??official official languages ??will be extremely long. Although African languages ??have a long history and rich vocabulary and expressions, most research on language theory is relatively backward. Languages ??with relatively mature research results in language theory include Japanese, Swahili, Hausa, Amharic and Zulu.

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Question 7: Who can tell me what language is spoken in Africa? Guinea French

Guinea Bibi Official language of Madagascar: Portuguese; common language: Creole* (no writing)

Official language of Madagascar: French; common language: Malagasy (belonging to the Malay language family)

Mali’s official language: French; common language: Bambara

Malawi’s official language: English, Chichiwa

Central African Republic’s official language: French; common language: Zango (no writing)

Official language of Uganda: English; national language: Swahili

Gambian English

Official Mauritius Language: English; common languages: Hindi, Creole*, French

Official language of Mauritania: ***; common languages: French

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Chad’s official language: French; common language: Sala (Sudanese language family) in the south and Chadian in the north

Ghanaian English

Official Gabon Language: French; Tribal languages: Fang, Miene, Bateké

Kinyarwanda, French

Sao Tome and Principe Portuguese

< p> Saint Helena and Ascension Island, etc. (English) English

Official language of Niger: French; common language: Hausa

Official language of Nigeria: English; common language : Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo

Burkina Faso French

Burundian French, Kirundi (Kirundi)

Congo Official language: French; South: Congolese (Bantu), Monukutuba; North: Lingala

Congo (DRC) Official language: French; Tribal language: Lingala Djibouti's official languages: French, Djibouti, Chiluba, Kiswahili, and Kinwana

Official languages ??of Djibouti: French, French; Tribal languages: Somali, Afar< /p>

Togo’s official language: French; tribal languages: Ewe, Kabuli

Angola’s official language: Portuguese; tribal languages: Kicongo, Kimbundu , Umbundu, Mbundu, etc.

Western Saharan ***

Cape Verde’s official language: Portuguese; common language: Creole*

Official language of Libya: Arabic; common language: Italian

Liberian English

Official language of Namibia: English, Afrikaans

Sudan’s official language: ***; common languages: English, Nubian, Sudanese

Equatorial Guinea Spanish

Algeria’s official language: *** Language; common language: French, (North African) Berber

Official language of Tanzania: English; common language: Bantu, Swahili

Official language of Kenya: Swahili; Common language: English

Official languages ??of South Africa: Afrikaans, English; Tribal languages: Zulu, Bantu spoken by Xhosa, Tswana

Zimbabwean English

C?te d'Ivoire English

Comoros official language: French; common language: Comorian

Tunisia official language: ** * language; common language: French

Official language of Egypt: *** language; common language: French

Official language of Ethiopia: Amharic, common language: English, Somali English, French

Reunion Island (France) Local French

Somali official language: Somali, French;

Common languages: English, Italian

Mozambican Portuguese

Lesotho official language: English; local language: Sesuto

Botswana official language: English; Common language: Tswana

Cameroonian French, English

Official language of Swaziland: English; Common language: Swati, Zulu )

Senegalese French

Seychelles official languages: French, English; common language: Creole*

Sierra Leone official language: English; common language Languages: Mandi, Tamnai, Limba, Creole

Official language of Morocco: French; Common languages: Berber dialects, French... >>

Question 8: The African language "Africa" ??refers to "Black Africa" ??south of the Sahara. We have already mentioned North Africa and Northeast Africa when discussing the Asian-African language family. They Even if the language is not Chinese, it is its close relative. There are hundreds of languages ??in Africa. In addition to the Asian-African language family, there are also the Niger-Congo language family (Niger-Congo) and the Chad-Nile language family (Chari-Nile). The largest language family among Khoisan and the other two minor language families is the Niger-Congo language family. It has more than 200 million people, nearly half of Africa's population, and covers a vast area south of the Sahara. The Niger-Congo language family One of the most important branches is the Bantu language (branch), which accounts for more than half of the population of the entire language family. From Cameroon in West Africa to Kenya in East Africa, a "Bantu line" can be drawn, and Bantu languages ??are distributed below this line. At the same time, there are only a small number of isolated areas in Africa south of this line that speak other languages. The results of linguistic research show that the people who speak Bantu languages ??first originated in Cameroon more than 2,000 years ago, that is, the Bantu language. The northwest corner of the language area may be because after they learned to grow certain crops from the Near East, due to the adaptability of this crop, they gradually moved towards the east and eventually covered the entire Africa from there to the south. The most important language among the continental Bantu languages ??is Swahili, which has now become the most popular language in East Africa. Tanzania and Kenya even use it as the official language. In South Africa (Japan), it is spoken by white people. The language is called "Afrikaans", which was brought by Dutch colonists in the 17th century. Due to centuries of separation, it has become quite different from Dutch, so they are regarded as There are two different languages; the languages ??spoken by black people are mainly Zulu and Xhosa. Xhosa is influenced by a nearby small language family and has a very difficult "aspiration" sound. : While inhaling, vibrate your tongue up and down - if you can make a sound like this, I will convince you. "xh" represents this sound. In modern Africa, like other parts of the world, a smaller number of people speak small Languages ??gradually give way to a few big languages ??because it is naturally more useful for everyone to give up their own unused mother tongue and speak the main language spoken by the majority of people nearby

Question 9: Regarding African languages, just use Swahili. This language is used in many African countries. The most commonly used ones are basically greetings: hello jambo, goodbye kwa heri, how much is hii nibei gani, good luck bahati njema, sorry samehani, thank you asante