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Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In Africa by CertifiedNaija(m): 5:06pm On Aug 09, 2016
Africa is second largest and second most populous continent in the world with a total population of 1.111 billion.
African languages belong to one of the four language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo and Khoisan. Around 2,000 languages are spoken in Africa. Nigeria alone has 250 languages, one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The people of this large continent also use a wide variety of sign languages.

Here are the top 10 most spoken languages in Africa.

10) Zulu (Speakers in Africa: More than 10 million)
Zulu (IsiZulu) is used in the Eastern part of South Africa. Its tongue clicks are unique. The language is written with Latin characters. It is used widely in the South African media. According to Ethnologue, Zulu is the second most spoken Bantu language after Shona.

9) Amharic (Speakers in Africa: 18.7 million)
Amharic is the second most spoken Semitic language (after Arabic) in the world. It is the official working language of Ethiopia. Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of around 2.7 million emigrants. More than 18.7 million people speak Amharic in Africa.

cool Igbo (Speakers in Africa: More than 24 million)
Igbo is the native language of the Igbo people. There are more than 20 dialects of this language. They are all written in Latin characters. It is a tonal language.
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7) Yoruba (Speakers in Africa: More than 30 million)
Many people in Nigeria speak Yoruba. The language is also widely used in Togo and Benin. It is a varying tonal language written in mostly Latin letters.
Yoruba-Language

6) Oromo (Speakers in Africa: More than 30 million)
Many people residing in the Horn of Africa speak Oromo, a Cushitic language. It is not the official language of any nation. You will find people who speak this language in Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt and Kenya.
Oromo-Language

5) Hausa (Speakers in Africa: More than 50 million)
Many people in the Western, Northern and Central Africa use this language. Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Hausa has between 23 and 25 consonant
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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In Africa by spass101(m): 5:28pm On Aug 09, 2016
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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In Africa by tolugar: 5:31pm On Aug 09, 2016
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