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Sure people know of Zulu, Swahili and maybe Afrikaans, but there could be as many as 300 languages in just one African country, and only 3 or 4 are official. This is just a few more languages that exist in Africa.

Category: Languages

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A Rwandan official language, spoken by some 12 million people in Rwanda. Kinyarwanda uses 16 of the bantu noun classes (a category of nouns used in the bantu languages).

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Called an Afro-Asiatic language, Oromo is the most populous langiage in Ethopia. It is also spoken in Somalia and parts of Kenya. 95 percent of the speakers live in Ethiopia, mainly in the Oromia ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Spoken in Mali, Bambara is a language also spoken in Burkina Faso, and Senegal to a lesser extent. It serves as a lingua franca in Mali where 80 percent of the people speak it as a first or second ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Amharic is a semantic language spoken in Etheopia, infact, it is the second most spoken semantic language in the world, after Arabic. It is the official language of the Rederal Democratic Republic of ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

Yoruba is a Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa. It is a tonal language spoken by the Yoruba people in Nigeria Benin, and Togo and it dates to deep prehistory. As a continuum of several ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning

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