{"id":67588,"date":"2015-09-27T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?page_id=67588"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:18:12","slug":"language-families-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/language-families-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Language families in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2,000 languages that Africa contains fall within a relatively small number of large families (15).<br \/>\nThe family of Niger-Congo languages is spoken on most of the continent. It is the largest group of languages in the world (about 1,300 languages).<br \/>\nAmong others, there is the Afro-Asiatic family (to which belong Hebrew, Arabic dialects, and the languages of ancient Egypt, for example), the Nilo-Saharan family (along the lower part of the Nile), the Mand\u00e9 family (West Africa) etc.<br \/>\nMany of these languages are little studied, and the number of families and their distribution changes as science progresses, revealing a vast linguistic wealth, largely threatened.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/afro-asiatic-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Asiatic Languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/austronesian-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austronesian language family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/english-based-creole-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">English-based Creole languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/french-based-creole-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">French-based Creole languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/portuguese-based-creole-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese-based Creole languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/dogon-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dogon languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/ijo-defaka-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ijo-Defaka languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/juu-hoan-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juu-\u01c2Hoan languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/all-about-languages-\u200b\u200bin-the-world\/language-groups-throughout-the-world\/kadu-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kadu languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/khoe-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Khoe languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/koman-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Koman languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/mande-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mande languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/niger-congo-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niger-Congo languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/nilo-saharian-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nilo-Saharian languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/ubangian-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubangian languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/tuu-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuu languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/songhay-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Songhay languages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/language-isolates-and-non-classified-languages-in-africa\/\">Language isolates and non-classified languages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NB: Only part of these Creoles are spoken on the African continent.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/en\/africa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65133\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/bouton_retour.jpg\" alt=\"bouton_retour\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"\/en\/africa\/\"><strong>Back to previous page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2,000 languages that Africa contains fall within a relatively small number of large families (15). 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