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    over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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    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...
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    This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There...
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  • The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by the linguist Joseph Greenberg, in which the author sets forth a genetic classification of African languages...
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  • Bantu language native to East Africa and English is inherited from British colonial rule. According to Ethnologue, there are a total of 68 languages spoken...
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    525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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    the Bantu expansion, Khoisan languages, or languages like them, were likely spread throughout southern and eastern Africa. They are currently restricted...
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    instead of Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family....
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  • 23 African sign languages in this article]. "History of the deaf and sign languages in Africa" (in Japanese). Aacore. December 25, 2006. "Africa – Sign...
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    The languages of Ethiopia include the official languages of Ethiopia, its national and regional languages, and a large number of minority languages, as...
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