African Languages

 

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County Flag Language Support Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Yes Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages Yes Benin French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) Yes Botswana English (official), Setswana Yes Burkina Faso French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population Yes Burundi Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) Yes Cameroon 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) Yes Central African Republic French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili Yes Chad French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects Yes Congo, Democratic Republic of the French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba Yes Djibouti French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar Yes Egypt Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes Yes quatorial Guinea Spanish (official), French (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo Yes Ethiopia Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools) Yes Gabon French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi Yes   Gambia English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars Yes   Ghana English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) Yes Guinea French (official), each ethnic group has its own language Yes Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages   Kenya English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Yes Liberia English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence Yes Libya Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities Yes Madagascar French (official), Malagasy (official) Yes Malawi English (official), Chichewa (official), other languages important regionally Yes Mali French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages Yes Mauritania Hasaniya Arabic (official), Pular, Soninke, Wolof (official), French Yes Mauritius English (official), Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori Yes Morocco Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy Yes Mozambique Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects Yes Namibia English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama Yes Niger French (official), Hausa, Djerma Yes Nigeria English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani Yes Rwanda Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers Yes Senegal French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka Yes 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%) Yes Somalia Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English Yes South Africa 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu Yes Sudan Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English Yes Tanzania Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguju (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note:  Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages Yes Togo  French (official and the language of commerce), 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) Yes Tunisia Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce) Yes 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), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic Yes Zambia English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages Yes Zimbabwe English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects Yes a

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