|
Country |
Language(s) |
|
Algeria |
Arabic
(official). French. Berber dialects |
|
Angola |
Portuguese (official). Bantu |
|
Benin |
Fon.
Yoruba. French (official) |
|
Botswana |
Tswana
(official). English (official) |
|
Burkina Faso |
French
(official) |
|
Burundi |
Kirundi (official). French (official). Swahili |
|
Cameroon |
Beti
Fulfulde English (official) French (official) |
|
Cape
Verde |
Portuguese Crioulo |
|
Central African Republic |
Sango
(official) French (official) |
|
Chad |
Arabic
(official) French (official) Sara Kanembu |
|
Comoros |
Comorian French (official) Arabic |
|
Congo,
Dem. Rep. of the |
Lingala Swahili, Congo Kicongo Luba-Kasai Kituba Luba-Katanga Mongo-Nkundu
French (official) |
|
Congo,
Rep. of the |
Munukutuba [Monokutuba] 60% Lingala French (official) |
|
Cote
d'Ivoire |
French
(official) |
|
Djibouti |
French
(official) Arabic (official) Somali Afar |
|
Egypt |
Arabic (official) |
|
Equatorial Guinea |
Spanish (official) French (official) pidgin English Fang Bubi Ibo |
|
Eritrea |
Afar
Amharic Arabic Tigre and Kunama Tigrinya |
|
Ethiopia |
Amharic Tigrinya Oromigna Guaragigna Somali Arabic |
|
Gabon |
French
(official) Fang Myene Nzebi Bapounou/Eschira Bandjabi |
|
Gambia, The |
English (official) Mandinka Wolof Fula |
|
Ghana |
English (official). African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba,
Ewe, and Ga) |
|
Guinea |
French
(official) |
|
Guinea-Bissau |
Portuguese (official). Crioulo. African languages |
|
Kenya |
English (official). Kiswahili (official) |
|
Lesotho |
Sesotho (southern Sotho) English (official) Zulu Xhosa |
|
Liberia |
English 20% (official) |
|
Libya |
Arabic
Italian English |
|
Madagascar |
Malagasy (official) French (official) |
|
Malawi |
Chichewa (official) English (official) |
|
Maldives |
Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala) |
|
Mali |
French (official) Bambara 80% |
|
Mauritania |
Hassaniya Arabic (official) Pulaar Soninke Wolof (official) French |
|
Mauritius |
English (official) Creole French (official) Hindi Urdu Hakka Bhojpuri |
|
Mayotte |
Mahorian (a Swahili dialect). French (official language) spoken by 35%
of the population |
|
Morocco |
Arabic
(official). Berber dialects. French |
|
Mozambique |
Portuguese (official) |
|
Namibia |
English 7% (official). Afrikaans 60% of white pop. German 32% |
|
Niger |
French
(official). Hausa. Djerma |
|
Nigeria |
English (official).
Hausa.
Yoruba. Igbo (Ibo). Fulani |
|
Reunion |
French
(official). Creole widely used |
|
Rwanda |
Kinyarwanda (official). French (official). English (official). Kiswahili
(Swahili) used in commercial centers |
|
Sao Tome and Principe |
Portuguese (official) |
|
Senegal |
French
(official). Wolof. Pulaar. Jola. Mandinka |
|
Seychelles |
English (official). French (official). Creole |
|
Sierra
Leone |
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority). Mende
(principal vernacular in the south). Temne (principal vernacular in the
north). Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed
Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca
and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) |
|
Somalia |
Somali
(official). Arabic. Italian. English |
|
South
Africa |
Afrikaans (official). English (official). Ndebele (official). Pedi
(official). Sotho (official). Swazi (official). Tsonga (official).
Tswana (official). Venda (official). Xhosa (official)
Zulu (official) |
|
Sudan |
Arabic
(official). Nubian
Ta Bedawie |
|
Swaziland |
English (official, government business conducted in English). iSwati
(official) |
|
Tanzania |
Kiswahili or Swahili (official). English (official). Arabic |
|
Togo |
French
(official). Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south)
Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African
languages in the north) |
|
Tunisia |
Arabic (official). French |
|
Uganda |
English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in
courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts)
Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages,
preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be
taught in school) |
|
Western Sahara |
Hassaniya Arabic. Moroccan Arabic |
|
Zambia |
English (official) |
|
Zimbabwe |
English (official). Shona. Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele,
sometimes called Ndebele) |
|
World |
Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%
Hindi 6.02%
English 5.61%
Spanish 5.59%
Bengali 3.4%
Portuguese 2.63%
Russian 2.75% (Russia)
Japanese 2.06%
German, Standard 1.64%
Korean 1.28%
French 1.27% |
