AFRICA : LANGUAGES

            

          

                 UPDATED LIST OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH   

      THEIR LANGUAGES.

The Africa:Home of Glory

	COUNTRY		OFFICIAL AND NATIONAL LANGUAGES	OTHER SPOKEN LANGUAGES
	Algeria		Arabic	Berber languages, four dialects (by constitutional amendment)            French
	Angola		Portuguese	Narrow Bantu like Umbundu and other African languages.
	Benin		French            Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south),	tribal languages (at least six major ones in north).
	Botswana       .		Setswana (national language with minor differences in dialects), English is the official business language and it is widely spoken in urban areas
	Burkina Faso		French	Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
	Burundi		Kirundi, French	Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area).
	Cameroon		English, French	24 major African language groups.
	Cape Verde		Portuguese	Kabuverdianu (Crioulo) (a blend of Portuguese and West African words).
	Central African Republic		French, Sangho (lingua franca and national language)	Banda, Gbaya and other tribal languages.
	Chad		French, Arabic	Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
	Comoros		Arabic, French	Shikomoro (a blend of Swahili and Arabic
	Democratic Republic of the Congo              franca trade		French	Lingala lingua language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
	Congo, Republic of the            French            ),		Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages	many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread).
	Côte d'Ivoire		French	60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken
	Djibouti		French, Arabic            Somali, Afar	______________
	Egypt		Arabic            English	French widely understood by educated classes
	Equatorial Guinea		Spanish, French	Pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
	Eritrea            ),		Tigrinya (Tigrigna), Arabic, English          Tigré (second major language	Afar, Bedawi, Kunama, other Cushitic languages.
	Ethiopia		Amharic	Tigrinya, Oromo, Gurage, Somali, Arabic, 80 other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools)
	Gabon		French	Bantu languages like Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi
	Gambia,		The     English	Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
	Ghana		English	African languages (including Akan, Adangme, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga
	Guinea		French (spoken by 15-20%)	Eight national languages, Soussou (Susu, in coastal Guinea), Peulh (Fulani, in Northrn Guinea), Maninka (Upper Guinea), Kissi (Kissidougou Region), Toma and Guerze (Kpelle) in rain forest Guinea; plus various ethnic groups with their own language.
	Guinea-Bissau		Portuguese	Crioulo (a mixture of Portuguese and African), other African languages.
	Kenya		English, Kiswahili	numerous indigenous languages
	Lesotho		Sesotho (southern Sotho),            English	Zulu, Xhosa
	Liberia		English	some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence.
	Libya		Arabic            Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities	____________________
	Madagascar		French, Malagasy	_________________________
	Malawi		English, Nyanja (Chichewa, Chewa)	Lomwe, Tumbuka, Yao, other languages important regionally.
	Mali		French	Bambara (Bamanakan), Arabic and numerous dialects of Dogoso, Fulfulde, Koyracini, Senoufou, and Mandinka/Malinké (Maninkakan), Tamasheq are also widely spoken.
	Mauritania		Arabic	Hassaniya Arabic, Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof, French
	Mauritius		English, French            Creole	Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bhojpuri
	Morocco		Arabic	Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy.
	Mozambique              .		Portuguese (spoken by 27% of population as a second language)	Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, numerous other indigenous languages
	Namibia		English 7%    Afrikaans	common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	Niger		French	Hausa, Djerma
	Nigeria		English	Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, Ijaw, Ibibio and about 250 other indigenous languages spoken by the different ethnic groups
	Réunion		French	Creole widely used
	Rwanda          French, English		Rwanda (Kinyarwanda, Bantu vernacular)	Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers.
	Saint Helena		English
	São Tomé and Príncipe		Portuguese
	Senegal		French	Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka
		Seychelles       ,	English	French Creole
		Sierra Leone	English (regular use limited to literate minority)	Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
		Somalia	Somali Arabic, Italian, English
		South Africa	11official languages, including v  Afrikaans, v  English, v  isiNdebele, v  Pedi, v  Sesotho (Sotho), v  siSwati (Swazi), v  Xitsonga (Tsonga), v  Tswana, v  Tshivenda v  (Venda), v  isiXhosa, v  isiZulu
		Sudan/South Sudan	Arabic	Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English. note: program of "Arabization" in process
		Swaziland	English (government business conducted in English), siSwati
		Tanzania, United Republic of	Kiswahili (Swahili), Kiunguju (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education)      Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar),	Gogo, Haya, Makonde, Nyakyusa, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Tumbuka, many other local languages.
		Togo	French (the language of commerce)	Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north
		Tunisia	Arabic            (and the languages of commerce)            French (commerce)
		Uganda	English (used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts)	Ganda (Luganda; most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Acoli, Swahili, Arabic
		Western Sahara	Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
		Zambia	English	major vernaculars: Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages.
		Zimbabwe      English		Chishona (Shona), Sindebele (Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects like: Sotho and Nambya, Shangani, Venda, Chewa, Nyanja, and Tonga

             

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