African languages
Zulu, Yoruba, Amharic
African languages comprise over two thousand distinct languages spoken across the African continent, grouped into major families including Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan.
The diversity is immense—Nigeria alone has over five hundred languages.
Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu, Amharic, and Hausa are among the most widely spoken.
She studies African languages at the university.
- BantuAfrican language family
- Niger-CongoMajor African language family
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- oral traditionsCulture transmitted through speech
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
Berber · Folklore · Proverbs · ubuntu · call and response · talking drums · Sahel · lingua franca · oral · tonal · Amharic · drums · village · pidgin · Zulu · ancestors · safari · dialect
African languagesEuropean languages
Tongues from that continent
Asian languages · Romance languages · Slavic languages · Indo-Aryan languages · Dravidian languages