I have been kind of curious on the kind of languages you hear other Africans speak on tv.
this curiosity led me to do some findings and found out Nigeria three major languages made the list. but the numbers they appear will shock you.


10) Zulu (Speakers in Africa: More than 10 million)Zulu (IsiZulu) is used in the Eastern part of South Africa. Its tongue clicksare 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 phonemes.

4) French (Speakers in Africa: More than 90 million)French is one of the very few languages spoken all over the world.Many countries in Africa were colonized by France. Because of this, more than 90 million people in this continent can speak French. In nations like Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and Rwanda, French is usedcommonly in society.

3) Swahili (Kiswahili) (Speakers in Africa: More than 100 million)The Swahili language or Kiswahili is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It is a Bantu language and the mother tongue of the Swahili people. Many communities in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo speak Swahili.

2) Arabic (Speakers in Africa: More than 100 million)Arabic is the most widespread official language in the African continent. It is the official language of Algeria, Mauritania, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. Arabic is the co-official language of Morocco, Eritrea, Somalia, Chad, Sudan, Djibouti and Western Sahara

1) English (Speakers in Africa:Around 700 million)In Africa, English is the primary language of Botswana, Cameroon, Rwanda, Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana. In South Africa, it is given official status with 10 other languages.

Hakuna matata

When i see nigeria language i think is nigeria idigeneous language.English is not nigeria language,we borrowed english language.

Oromos are that many? I doubt.

And english is fast becoming a universal language

I no see Igala for there, which one now??

abuayman:
I no see Igala for there, which one now??

OMA attahi nago sir

fidel3431:


OMA attahi nago sir

Omaye, abele

Eli uji ku uboi che ba?

Igbo,Yoruba and hausa...naijas issues circumvents around this trifecta.

abuayman:

Omaye, abele
Eli uji ku uboi che ba?

sholafiya sir
tuma no kpai alima

abuayman:

Omaye, abele
Eli uji ku uboi che ba?

Abi ma chuji lè? Ugbo mónu Igala la dé?

Fre118b: Le Francais est hard(to french), omo yoruba ni mi

Hauneg:
Abi ma chuji lè? Ugbo mónu Igala la dé?

awa jemi i le!!! lolz

informative

okay

SEEDORF441:
When i see nigeria language i think is nigeria idigeneous language.English is not nigeria language,we borrowed english language.

And you didn't see Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa there? Did we borrow those too?

Hausa concur! But Igbo should be 10th on the list because that language ain't pupolar at all. Facts backing my claims coming soon.....

NCAN...South Western Zone,,,,after entering thread like,
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Saying, # Agbayi juwon lo#
Was left disappointed as they say the Zombies up ahead of them!
Dem come be like,

Did you forget pidgin or u simply chose to be ignorant eeh?

Hauneg:

Abi ma chuji lè?
Ugbo mónu Igala la dé?

Awa ubi Igala, aneke ti million meji le.