Home›African Language Families›Classification Status›ProposedBrowse ByProposedFactsProposedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested2100 1ProposedFilter Results9 entriesMacro-areaAllBantu Languages (2)Nilo-Saharan (4)Other Niger-Congo (3)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (3)RegionAllAfrica (5)Cameroon (1)Central Africa (1)Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)Ethiopia (1)Nigeria (1)South Sudan (1)Sub-Saharan Africa (1)Sudan (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)In GroupAllBantu Languages (2)Nilo-Saharan (4)Other Niger-Congo (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 9Adamawa languagesProposedBoan languagesProposedEast Plateau languagesProposedFuru languagesProposedKomuz languagesProposedNiger-CongoProposedNilo-SaharanProposedNorthern Eastern Sudanic languagesProposedTalodi-HeibanProposedSources1. Wikipedia: Languages Of AfricaWikimedia FoundationLead sectionQuote, Lead sectionThe number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.