in Africa ref cite book title African Languages an Introduction editor last Heine editor first Bernd ... Africa is incredibly rich in language&mdash over 3,000 indigenous languages by some counts, and many ... validity Niger Congo languages Niger Congo Bantu covers West Africa West , Central Africa Central , and East Africa Southeast Africa Khoe languages Khoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana ... as obscure languages that have yet to be classified. In addition, Africa has a wide variety ... of Africa are widely used for inter ethnic communication. Arabic language Arabic , Berber languages ... level. Language groups Most languages spoken in Africa belong to one of three large Language family ... Main Afroasiatic languages Afro Asiatic languages are spoken throughout the Middle East , North Africa , the Horn of Africa , and parts of the Sahel . There are approximately 375 Afro Asiatic languages ... branch of the Afro Asiatic family of languages that is spoken outside of Africa. Some of the most ... family is the largest group of Africa and probably of the world in terms of the number of languages ... Several languages spoken in Africa belong to language families concentrated or originating outside ... Indo European language known to have developed in Africa. Since the colonial era, Indo European languages ..., possibly related to Khoe Kx a languages Kx a of southern Africa Tuu languages Tuu , or Taa Ui, two ... Unclassified languages of Africa A fair number of unclassified languages are reported in Africa ... Africa Many African countries have national sign languages, such as Algerian Sign Language , Tunisian ... published on these languages. Language in Africa Throughout the long multilingual history of the African ... in Africa.svg thumb upright 1.5 Official languages in Africa cellpadding 0 legend FF8C00 Afrikaans ... languages that may be considered endangered language s. Demographics See Demographics of Africa Of the 890 ... franca of West Africa. Other important West African languages are Yoruba language Yoruba , Igbo language ... more details
Italic title The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg , in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most ... The book classifies Africa s languages into four stocks not presumed to be related, as follows I. Congo Kordofanian languages Congo Kordofanian I.A Niger Congo languages Niger Congo I.A.1 Atlantic languages West Atlantic I.A.1.a Northern Wolof language Wolof , Serer language Serer Sin , Fula ... H. 1963 The Languages of Africa . International journal of American linguistics, 29, 1, part 2. Greenberg, Joseph H. 1966 The Languages of Africa 2nd ed. with additions and corrections . Bloomington Indiana University. DEFAULTSORT Languages of Africa Category Language histories Category Languages of Africa ... as against isolated comparisons between pairs of languages. Only linguistic evidence is relevant ... against previous African linguists notably Carl Meinhof Meinhof who had classified languages on linguistic ... Sudanic languages Western Sudanic , but he changed the subclassification, including Fula language ... Bantu languages Bantu as merely a subfamily of Benue Congo previously termed Semi Bantu . Semitic ..., while Chadic languages Chadic , Nilo Hamitic languages Nilo Hamitic , Fulani, and Hottentot language ... linguistics as a result, he renamed the newly reclassified family Afro Asiatic languages Afroasiatic ... Hottentot as a member of the Central Khoisan languages. To Khoisan he also added the much more ... used. Within this, he identified a major subgroup termed Chari Nile languages Chari Nile , containing ... Sudanic on a firmer foundation. Finally, he assigned the non Nilo Saharan languages of the Nuba Hills of Kordofan to a single subfamily Kordofanian languages Kordofanian , which together with Niger ... language Biafada , Badjara language Badyara Pajade , Jola languages Dyola , Mandjak language Mandyak , Balante, Banyun languages Banyun , Nalu language Nalu , Kobiana language Cobiana , Kasanga ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2008 Image Africa satellite orthographic.jpg 230px right This is a list of extinct languages of Africa , languages which have undergone language death , have no native speakers and no Historical language spoken descendant . Angola Kwadi language Kwadi Cameroon Duli language Duli Gey language Gey Nagumi language Nagumi Yeni language Yeni Chad Horo language Horo Muskum language Muskum C te d Ivoire Esuma language Esuma Democratic Republic of the Congo Ngbee language Ngbee Egypt Ancient Egyptian language Ancient Egyptian Ancient Nubian Eritrea Geez language Geez Ethiopia Gafat language Gafat Geez see Eritrea, above Mesmes language Weyto language Weyto Guinea Baga Kaloum language Baga Kaloum see Baga languages Baga Soban language Baga Soban Kenya Elmolo language Elmolo Kore language Kore Omotik language Omotik Nigeria Ajawa language Ajawa Auyokawa language Auyokawa Basa Gumna language Basa Gumna Gamo Ningi language Gamo Ningi Kpati language Kpati Kubi language Kubi Mawa language Mawa Teshenawa language Teshenawa South Africa & 47 Xegwi language Xegwi & 47 Xam language Xam Seroa language Seroa Sudan Ancient Nubian Beigo Baygo Berti language Berti Birked language Birked Gule language Gule Homa language Homa Mittu language Mittu Togoyo language Togoyo Torona language Torona Tanzania Kw adza language Kw adza Ngasa language Ngasa Tunisia Mediterranean Lingua Franca Punic language Punic Sened language Sened Vandalic language Vandalic Uganda Nyang i language Nyang i Singa language Singa Category Lists of extinct languages Category Extinct languages of Africa Category Africa related lists Extinct languages gag Afrika k kl l diller listasi mk tr Afrika k kenli l diller listesi ... more details
one language. Dutch and English were the first official languages of South Africa from 1910 to 1925. Afrikaans was Official Languages of the Union Act, 1925 added as a part of Dutch in 1925 . Dutch was replaced by Afrikaans when South Africa became a republic in 1961, ref The Official Languages ... dominant language map.svg thumb right Dominant languages in South Africa. Clear columns col1 legend ... represented in South Africa the Sotho Tswana languages Sotho Tswana branch Sotho, Northern Sotho ... languages of South Africa can be divided into two geographical zones, with Nguni languages being ... areas. Other significant languages spoken in South Africa This section is linked from Pretoria Other languages spoken in South Africa, though not mentioned in the Constitution, include Fanagalo ... of other languages can also be found in parts of South Africa. In the older immigrant communities ... , Central and West Africa n languages have arrived in South Africa, mostly in the major cities ... Chapter 1 Founding Provisions , Section 6 Languages of the Constitution of South Africa is the basis ... for br i all languages commonly used by communities in South Africa, including German language ... of South Africa accessdate 1 December 2009 location Cape Town Recognised languages Official ... Xegwi language Xegwi Xam language Xam Seroa language Seroa See also Portalbox South AfricaLanguages ... to the languages of South Africa http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp?name South Africa Ethnologue .... 27, No. 4 Dec., 1998 , pp. 439 458 Languages of South Africa Life in South AfricaAfrica in topic Languages of Use dmy dates date September 2010 DEFAULTSORT Languages Of South Africa Category Languages ... do Sul ru nso Maleme a Afrika Borwa simple Languages of South Africa ...South Africa has eleven official language s Afrikaans , South African English English , Southern Ndebele ... Cite book title Census 2001 Census in brief publisher Statistics South Africa year 2009 page 14 url ... more details
The Bible, or portions of the Bible, have been translated into various languages of Africa. Afrikaans Main Bible translations into Afrikaans Arabic Main Bible translations into Arabic Bemba Cibemba Zambia Part of the Bible in Bemba language was first published in 1904, followed by the New Testament in 1916, and the entire Bible in 1956. Currently a revision is in progress. Paul Mushindo and the Scottish missionary Robert McMinn worked together on Bible translation into the Bemba language for over twenty years. ref The struggle for control of education in Zambia Dan O Brien 2006 As late as 1947 ... of the Bible into Bemba for over twenty years ref Berber Main Bible translations into Berber languages ... by 1913. ref The Bible in Africa transactions, trajectories, and trends p326 Gerald O. West, Musa W ... in 1988. ref The Bible in Africa transactions, trajectories, and trends p327 Gerald O. West ..., with the New Testament appearing in 1830. ref A history of the church in Africa p490 Bengt Sundkler ... translated into Mijikenda languages. Oromo Ethiopia Oromo language Oromo is a language of Ethiopia ... Robert Moffat Congregationalist, translated into Sechwana language Sotho South Africa Samuel Rolland ... Lemue and Bisseux, Rolland belonged to the first team of missionaries sent to South Africa by the mission ... into different dialects of Swahili as spoken in different regions of East Africa these include ..., ili kila mtu amwaminiye asipotee, bali awe na uzima wa milele. Xhosa South Africa Henry Hare Dugmore ... 25 Translation Gospel of John John uYohane 3 16 style text align center Bible Society of South Africa ... South Africa In 1837, the first portion s of the Bible in the Zulu language were published, in the First ... in South Africa by Gertrude Rachel Hance, pg. 45 ref It was revised in 1959, and published in London ... in 1986 and published in Cape Town by the Bible Society of South Africa . This was translated ... Christianity in Africa Category Bible translations by language Africa ... more details
languagesAfrica Category Lists of languages Endangered Category Endangered languages of Africa Category Africa related lists Endangered languages ... Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO 639 3 hio Ethnologue entry Ethnolink ... Languages ISO 639 3 sbf Ethnologue entry Ethnolink sbf Shabo language Ghana class wikitable align ... Kinare language , Okiek language Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO 639 3 oki Ethnologue ... in Namibia Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO 639 3 isocode Ethnologue entry ... Languages ISO 639 3 isocode Ethnologue entry Ethnolink isocode Xu language Nigeria ... No. Speakers Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO 639 3 kch Ethnologue entry Ethnolink kch Vono ... Also spoken in Gambia . No. Speakers Over 10,000 Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO 639 3 ... bnl Boon South Africa class wikitable align center style font size 90 South Africa width 20 Language ... Ongamo language Comments Also Ngasa language No. Speakers Source Red Book of Endangered Languages ISO ... more details
orphan date January 2010 Italic title Infobox Journal title Africa & Asia G teborg Working Papers on Asian and African Languages and Literatures cover discipline Linguistics , literature language website http www.african.gu.se aa contents.html link1 link1 name publisher G teborg University country Sweden abbreviation history frequency Annually ISSN 1650 2019 eISSN Jstor OCLC 64272834 LCCN The series Africa & Asia G teborg Working Papers on Asian and African Languages and Literatures aims to cover any aspect relevant to the study of Asian and African languages and literatures. The journal appears annually. External links http www.african.gu.se aa contents.html Category Open access journals Category Linguistics journals Category Literary magazines Category University of Gothenburg Category Annual journals ... more details
Subclass PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania is a classification used by the Library ... its name includes Turkic languages spoken in the Middle East and Central Asia , not in Eastern Asia. Contents PL1 8844..........Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1 481.......... Ural Altaic languages PL21 396.......... Turkic languages PL400 431.......... Mongolian languages PL450 481.......... Tungusic languages Tungus Manchu languages PL 490 495..........Far Eastern languages and literature ... 3311..........Non Chinese languages of China PL3501 3509..........Non Aryan languages of India and Southeastern ... Singapore literature PL3518..........Languages of the Montagnard Vietnam Montagnard s PL3521 4001.......... Sino Tibetan languages PL3551 4001.......... Tibeto Burman languages PL3561 3801..........Tibeto Himalayan languages PL3601 3775.......... Tibetan language Tibetan PL3781 3801.......... Himalayan languages PL3851 4001.......... Assam and Burma PL4051 4054.......... Karen languages PL4070 4074.......... Miao Yao languages PL4281 4587.......... Austroasiatic languages PL4301 4470.......... Mon Khmer languages Mon Khmer Mon Annam languages PL4371 4379.......... Vietnamese language ... Khasi , Muong language Muong , etc. PL4471 4471.5.......... Nicobarese languages Nicobarese PL4490 4498.......... Chamic languages PL4501 4587.......... Munda languages Kolarian languages PL4601 4890 .......... Dravidian languages PL5001 7511..........Languages of Oceania PL5001 7101.......... Austronesian languages Austronesian , Papuan, and Australian languages PL5051 5497.......... Malayan languages Malayan Indonesian languages PL5501 6135.......... Philippine languages PL6145 6167.......... Formosan languages Taiwan languages PL6191 6341.......... Micronesian languages Micronesian and Melanesian languages PL6401 6551.......... Polynesian languages PL6601 6621.......... Papuan languages PL7001 7101.......... Australian languages PL8000 8844..........African languages and literature PL8000 ... more details
Islands 4 Ceuta 5 Madeira Islands 6 Melilla 7 Saint Helena languagesLanguages of Africa time UTC 1 to UTC 4 cities List of metropolitan areas in Africa br List of cities in Africa Image AfricaCIA HiRes.jpg thumb 240px Map of AfricaAfrica is the world s second largest and second most populous continent ... Africa larger, more structured groups such as the family clan groupings of the Bantu languages Bantu ... . Times Online. December 16, 2004. ref The peoples of West Africa primarily speak Niger Congo languages ...Other uses pp semi indef Infobox Continent title Africa image File Africa orthographic projection .svg 200px Africa area 30,221,532 km sup 2 sup 11,668,599 sq mi population 1,032,532,974 ref name esa.un.org ... countries List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa dependencies Collapsible list ..., April Pulley. 1999 Africa , Twenty First Century Books. ISBN 0 7613 1367 2. ref With 1.0 billion people ... recognition . ref See List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa . ref Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa , is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin .... 16, 2005 Dead link date May 2010 ref Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate ... cite web url http www.visualgeography.com continents africa.html title Africa. General info last ... who dwelt in North Africa in modern day Tunisia . Their name is usually connected with Phoenician ... people http www.jstor.org pss 714549 book on ligne ref Africa or Ifri or Afer ref name book on ligne ... PPA200,M1 book on line ref Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of Africa Province ... hypotheses that have been postulated for the ancient name Africa the 1st century Jewish historian ... refers to a womb or birthplace. Africa would be, for the Egyptians, the birthplace. ref cite ... Irish female name lang ga Aifric is sometimes Anglicisation anglicised as Africa , but the given name is unrelated to the geonym . History Main History of Africa See History of North Africa History ... more details
Infobox Top level domain name .africa background D2B48C image introduced Not officially introduced proposed in 2006 type Proposed top level domain status Unofficial proposal registry None yet Proposed sponsor DotConnectAfrica intendeduse African and Pan African communities actualuse Not available for use restrictions None specified yet structure Contained in proposal document disputepolicy website .africa is a proposed Internet generic top level domain generic top level domain gTLD for the African and Pan African communities and users wherever they may reside. The .africa TLD would serve as regional domain for individuals and entities based in the Africa region interested in expressing a Pan African identity or outlook in the Internet. In 2009, DotConnectAfrica organization was endorsed as the official sponsor for the initiative by the African Union AU ref cite web title Endorsement of the DotAfrica .africa Initiative August 27, 2009 url http www.scribd.com doc 31565131 African Union AU Endorsement of DotConnectAfrica work archiveurl http www.scribd.com archivedate 2009 08 27 deadurl no accessdate 2010 12 25 ref and the Economic Commission for Africa ECA . ref cite web title The dotafrica Project initiative, August 8, 2008 url http www.scribd.com doc 31566444 Economic Commission for Africa ECA Endorsment of DotConnectAfrica work archiveurl http www.scribed.com archivedate 2008 08 ... domain names program by ICANN on June 20 in Singapore, the full proposal for .africa will be presented ... of this new top level domain at ICANN Lisbon in 2007, ref cite web title Africa s map in the digital inclusion, A common voice for Africa March 28, 2007 url http www.slideshare.net Nyosef dotafrica work ... title The launch of dotafrica East Africa campaign September 7, 2010 url http www.scribd.com doc 45509559 ... is approved. Other names such as .afrique for Francophone Africa and .afrikia for Arabic speaking ... expanded Proposed DEFAULTSORT Africa Category Proposed top level domains Category African and Pan African ... more details
Languages of country Botswana official English language English national Tswana language Tswana Culture of Botswana The official language of Botswana is English. Tswana language Setswana is spoken by around 78 of the population. External links http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp?name Botswana Ethnologue listing of Botswana languagesLanguages of Botswana Languages of Africa Botswana stub Category Languages of Botswana fr Langues du Botswana tn Dipuo tsa mo Botswana ... more details
distinguish Samo languages Infobox language family name Samogo region West Africa familycolor Niger Congo fam1 Niger Congo languages Niger Congo ? fam2 Mande languages Mande fam3 Western Mande fam4 Northwestern The Samogo languages are a small group of Mande languages of Mali and Burkina Faso . Seenku language Seenku Seeku, Sembla, Seemogo Duun Dzuun language Dzuun East Duun . Dialects Kpango Kpan, Samoro guan , Dz ngoo Samogo iri . Duun language Duun West Duun, Du, Duungooma, Samogo sien Banka language Banka Bankagooma The name Samogo or Samogho is a Jula and Bambara term for several Mande languages which do not necessarily form a clade, including Jowulu language Jowulu J and the Samo languages . Category Mande languages nc lang stub ... more details
Fuegian languages refers to mainly to three languages spoken in Tierra del Fuego by native Americans the Kaw sqar language , the Ona language and the Yaghan language . The term can be regarded as a collective name, but currently there is no evidence that they are related to each other. The Kaw sqar and Yaghan languages are considered language isolate s while Ona Selk nam language belongs to the Chon languages . See also Fuegians External links cite book last Weber first George title Lonely Islands. The Negrito People and the Out of Africa Story of the Human Race publisher Andaman Association year 1999 2007 chapter Possible Relatives in the Americas. The Fuegian Patagonian Languages chapterurl http www.andaman.org BOOK chapter54 text Fuego Languages text Fuegianlanguages.htm classifying na lang stub Category Fuegian languages ... more details
saved book title Africa subtitle cover image Africaaaaaaaaa.jpg cover color Africa Main article Africa Regions List of regions of Africa North Africa East Africa West Africa Southern Africa History History of Africa History of North Africa History of West Africa Arab slave trade Atlantic slave trade Colonisation of Africa Scramble for Africa Geography Geography of Africa Economy Economy of Africa Demographics African people Demographics of AfricaLanguagesLanguages of Africa Culture Culture of Africa Music of Africa Religion Religion in Africa Category Wikipedia books on AfricaAfrica Category Africa ... more details
Languages of country Burundi official Kirundi , French language French Culture of Burundi File View of bujumbura.JPG thumb right 300px A view of Bujumbura with signs in French and English The official languages of Burundi are Kirundi and French language French . Swahili language Swahili is also spoken. Education for the deaf in uses American Sign Language , introduced by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster educator Andrew Foster . No other languages are spoken natively in any significant numbers. External links http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp?name Burundi Ethnologue listing of Burundi languagesLanguages of Africa Burundi stub Category Languages of Burundi fr Langues du Burundi ... more details
distinguish Mokole language Benin Infobox language family name Mokole region West Africa familycolor Niger Congo fam1 Niger Congo languages Niger Congo ? fam2 Mande languages Mande fam3 Western Mande fam4 Central fam5 Manding Jogo fam6 Manding Vai fam7 Manding Mokole The Mokole languages are a small group of Mande languages of Guinea and Sierra Leone . They are Kakabe language Kakabe , Kuranko language Kuranko , Lele language Guinea Lele , and Mixifore language Mixifore . External links http llmap.org languages mkl.html Map of Mokole language area from the LL Map Project http multitree.org codes mkl Information on Mokole language from the MultiTree Project Category Mande languages nc lang stub ... more details
Infobox language family name Masa region Chad , Cameroon familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Chadic languages Chadic child1 North child2 South The Masa languages are a group of a dozen closely related Chadic languages of West Africa. Languages The Masa languages listed in Blench 2006 are ref Blench, 2006. http rogerblench.info Language Afroasiatic General AALIST.pdf The Afro Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List ms ref North Massa language Massa Masana ? Zumaya language Zumaya Musey Azumeina Musey language Musey Banana Azumeina language Azumeina Marba South Mesm language Mesm Peve Ka o P v language P v Nget Herd Dzepaw language Dz paw Lam , Nget language Sorga Nget , Herd language He e Rong The exonym Zime is used for the Herd , Nget , P v , and Mesm . Similarly, Ka o is a generic name for the Peve Ka o languages, a couple of which are called Lam as well. See also Chadic languages References reflist External links http africanlanguages.org chadic masa.html Masa Chadic resources at africanlanguages.org Category Chadic languages Category Languages of Cameroon Category Languages of Chad AfroAsiatic lang stub Cameroon stub Chad stub an Luengas masa br Yezho masek ca Lleng es masses es Lenguas masa hr Masa jezici nl Masatalen pl J zyki masa pt L nguas massa ... more details
Infobox language family name Rif altname Riff region North Africa familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Berber languages Berber fam3 Northern Berber languages Northern Berber fam4 Zenati languages Zenati In some classifications, the Rif Riff languages are a branch of the Zenati languages Northern Berber , of the Rif area of Morocco , that includes Rifian language Rifian , one of the major Berber languages. In Ethnologue 16, the Rif languages include Rifian and Senhaja De Srair language Senhaja De Srair . ref http www.ethnologue.com show family.asp?subid 2695 Riff language tree ref However, other sources classify Senhaja as one of the Atlas languages Citation needed date March 2012 or Mzab Wargla languages Mzab Wargla Blench 2006 . Roger Blench Blench 2006 considers Riff to be a dialect cluster , consisting of the following varieties ref http rogerblench.info Language Afroasiatic General AALIST.pdf AA list , Blench, ms, 2006 ref Rifian language Rifian Shawiya language Shawiya Tidikelt language Tidikelt Tuat language Tuat Ghomara language Ghmara Tlemcen language Tlemcen Sheliff Basin Berber Sheliff Basin References Reflist Category Berber languages Category Languages of Morocco Category Rif AfroAsiatic lang stub ar hr Rifski jezici ... more details
Infobox language family name Jogo altname Unicode J g region West Africa familycolor Niger Congo fam1 Niger Congo languages Niger Congo ? fam2 Mande languages Mande fam3 Western Mande fam4 Central fam5 Manding Jogo fam6 Jogo Jeri child1 Ligbi language Ligbi child2 Tonjon language Tonjon The J g Jogo languages are a pair of closely related Mande languages , Ligbi language Ligbi of Ghana and the extinct Tonjon language Tonjon of Ivory Coast . Category Mande languages nc lang stub mk ... more details
Infobox language family name Tuu altname Taa Kwi br Southern Khoisan obsolete region South Africa and Botswana familycolor Khoisan family One of the world s primary language family language families br traditionally considered Khoisan languages Khoisan child1 Taa child2 Kwi The Tuu or Taa Kwi Taa Ui , Ui Taa , Kwi languages are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South Africa . The relationship between the two clusters is not doubted, but is not close. The name Tuu comes from a word for person common to both branches of the family. The Tuu languages form in turn one branch of a proposed List of Khoisan languages Khoisan language family, and are called ... of South Africa is moribund language moribund , with only one language remaining, N ng language N ng , and that with less than a dozen elderly speakers. Kwi languages were once widespread across South Africa the most famous, Xam language Xam , was the source of the modern national motto of that nation ... the East H language , but this may instead be related to the Ju languages Juu family and is best ... many put down to Sprachbund areal influence. The Tuu languages, along with H , are known for being the only languages in the world to have bilabial click s as distinctive speech sounds, apart from ... many of the Tuu languages became extinct with little record, there is considerable confusion as to which of their many names represented separate languages or even dialects. See List of Khoisan languages for some possibilities. References G ldemann, Tom. 2006 . The San languages of southern Namibia ... 34. External links http multitree.org codes tuuu Tuu languages page in MultiTree Project . http www.mpi.nl DOBES projects taa Documentation of endangered languages Khoisan Language families Category Tuu languages Category Languages of Botswana Category Languages of South Africa Category Endangered languages lang stub it Lingue tuu sv Tuuspr k ... more details
Refimprove date September 2009 Merge Indo European studies Origin of the term date September 2009 Japhetic languages is a largely obsolete term for the languages spoken by the descendants of Japheth , son of Noah . It is now rarely used especially within the field of historical linguistics . It was usually ascribed By whom date September 2009 to the speakers of what we now term the Indo European languages . It should not be confused with the Japhetic theory linguistics Japhetic theory . The term Hamitic also used to be used but has now passed into obscurity, referring to Noah s son Ham, son of Noah Ham , ascribed to the languages spoken particularly by the people of Egypt, and more generally, by peoples in Africa. The third son of Noah, Shem still gives his name to the Semitic languages , a branch of the Afroasiatic family of languages, for which Semito Hamitic is an older, and now virtually obsolete term. See also Ham, son of Noah Hamitic Japheth Sons of Noah DEFAULTSORT Japhetic Languages Category Indo European Category Language families Category Japhetic ... more details
There are many languages spoken in Tanzania , but no one language is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Government policies encourage the use of Swahili language Swahili as the main common lingua franca , while English language English is the most important foreign language. Other languages Bemba language Bemba Bena language Bena Gogo language Gogo Haya language Haya Hehe language Hehe Iramba language Iramba Iraqw language Iraqw Luguru language Luguru Nyakyusa language Nyakyusa Nyamwezi language Nyamwezi Sukuma language Sukuma Turu language Turu Yao language Yao etc. See Category Languages of Tanzania . External links http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp?name tz Languages of Tanzania at Ethnologue site. http www.ethnologue.com show map.asp?name TZ&seq 10 Map of languages of Tanzania at Ethnologue Africa in topic Languages of Tanzania stub Category Languages of Tanzania mk ... more details
The University Press of America. Westermann, Diedrich Hermann 1952 Languages of West Africa Handbook ... , Ghana , and Togo familycolor Niger Congo fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo child1 Potou Tano languages Potou Tano child2 Ga Dangme languages Ga Dangme child3 Na Togo reduced child4 Anii ... Ab language Ab child10 Adjukru language Adjukru child11 Abidji language Abidji The Kwa languages , often specified as New Kwa , are a proposed but as yet undemonstrated family of languages spoken ... was introduced 1885 by Gottlob Krause and derives from the word for people Kwa in many of these languages, as illustrated by Akan names . Languages See the box at right for a current classification. The various clusters of languages included in Kwa are at best distantly related, and it has not been demonstrated that they are closer to each other than to neighboring Niger Congo languages. ref ELL2 MEK Dakubu Kwa Languages br except at the lower levels of classification such as the Tano, Potou Tano, and Ewe Fon Gbe groups, genetic relationships among these languages are quite distant. It has never ... languages are more closely related to one another than to any other languages. ref Stewart ref 1989 ..., which historical comparative analysis supports as valid groups Potou Tano languages Potou Tano including e.g. Guang languages Guang and Akan languages Akan Ga Dangme languages Ga Dangme Na Togo Ka Togo formerly Gbe languages Gbe dubious, as they show more features of Kwa the closer one moves to Akan The Lagoon languages of southern Ivory Coast are not particularly close to any of these, nor to each ... Stewart, Ega has been tentatively removed, and the Gbe languages reassigned to Volta Niger . Some of the Na Togo and Ka Togo languages have been placed into separate branches of Kwa. ref Williamson ... languages into two broad geographical groupings Nyo and Left bank , but this is not a genealogical ... the ungrouped languages of southern C te d Ivoire, while the Ka Na Togo and Gbe languages are called ... more details
rogerblench.info Language Afroasiatic General AALIST.pdf The Afro Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List ms ref West Chadic languages West Chadic . Two branches, which include A the Hausa language Hausa , Ron languages Ron , Bole languages Bole , and Angas languages Angas languages and B the Bade languages Bade , Warji language Warji , and Zaar languages Zaar languages. Biu Mandara languages Biu Mandara Central Chadic . Three branches, which include A the Bura language Bura , Kamwe language Kamwe , and Bata language Bata languages, among other groups B the Buduma language Buduma and Musgu language Musgu languages and C Gidar language Gidar East Chadic languages East Chadic . Two ... Kera languages and B the Dangal at language Dangal at , Mukulu language Mukulu , and Sokoro language Sokoro languages Masa languages Masa File Chadic Languages.jpg thumb Bibliography http www.ethnologue.com show family.asp?subid 262 16 Ethnologue entry for Chadic languages Lukas, Johannes 1936 The linguistic situation in the Lake Chad area in Central Africa. Africa , 9, 332&ndash 349. Lukas, Johannes ... phonology and lexicon. Journal of African Languages , 5, 218&ndash 251. Newman, Paul 1977 Chadic classification ... Category Afro Asiatic languages Category Chadic languages AfroAsiatic lang stub ar an Luengas ... more details
Geography and Anthropological Disapora Languages of AfricaAfrica , Western Political , Languages of Europe Europe , Languages of North America Immigrant languages North America West . Languages of Oceania Oceania Eastern Languages of Asia Asia , Languages of North America Indigenous languages North America West , Languages of South America Indigenous languages South America Languages of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia , Languages of South Asia Programming Paradigm List of programming languages ...NOTOC cleanup rewrite date March 2012 Domain class wikitable Geography Name Number Indigenous languages of the Americas East Asian languages List of languages by name By name List of languages by total number of speakers Total number of speakers List of languages by number of native speakers Number of native speakers Languages used on the Internet Most used on the Internet Classification Spoken According to SIL International , there are over 6,900 spoken languages, as cataloged and described in the book Languages of the World ISBN 0883128152 . The International Organization for Standardization ISO assigns codes for most languages for example, ISO 639 3 uses eng for English and apk for Plains Apache language Plains Apache , one of the five Apache languages of North America. ISO List of ISO 639 ... no inputbox Footer ISO 639 History List of languages by first written accounts List of languages by time of extinction Linguistic Countries and languages lists div align center class wikitable width 70 Constructed languages tl Constructed languages Official languages List of official languages List of official languages by state List of official languages by institution List of official languages Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official List of languages by number of countries where the language is spoken System Sign language and Writing system List of languages by writing system List of sign languages List of sign languages by number of native signers ... more details
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