What languages do African countries speak?

There are many languages in Africa, but there are four language families in general:

First of all, the flash language family

It contains 240 languages and is spoken by 285 million people.

Second, the Nile-Saharan language family.

It contains 100 languages and is used by 30 million people, mainly in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and northern Tanzania.

Three. Niger-Congo language family

One of the largest language families in the world, including hundreds of languages, is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, including Bantu.

Fourth, the Khoisan language family.

Including 50 languages, used by 65,438+200,000 people, concentrated in southern Africa.

Extended data:

The most spoken languages in Africa:

Swahili is the most widely used language in Africa.

Swahili is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and one of the national languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Swahili is one of the official languages of Comoros.

Swahili is used as a language of communication in Zambia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Mozambique and other East and Central African countries.

As early as 1728, Swahili was spelled with Arabic letters, and later changed to Latin letters under the influence of European colonists in 19 century. Swahili also absorbs a large number of Arabic loanwords, and even the name of Swahili comes from Arabic? (Sawahil) "coastal areas".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Africa