Home›African Language Families›In GroupBrowse ByIn GroupIn group places a language family inside the smaller branch it belongs to. Wikipedia notes Indo-European has "eight are still spoken: four by hundreds of millions of native speakers each (Indo-Iranian, Italic, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic), and four by fewer than fifteen million." This dimension nests a family inside the specific branch it sits within.FactsIn GroupSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested2100 1In GroupFilter Results10 entriesMacro-areaAllAfrican Language Isolates and Small Families (1)African Sign Languages (1)Afroasiatic: Berber and Egyptian (1)Afroasiatic: Chadic (1)Afroasiatic: Cushitic and Omotic (1)Afroasiatic: Semitic (1)Bantu Languages (1)Khoisan (1)Nilo-Saharan (1)Other Niger-Congo (1)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAfro-Asiatic (2)Atlantic-Congo (1)Bantu (1)Benue-Congo (2)Central Sudanic (1)Chadic (1)Cushitic (1)Ethio-Semitic (1)Mande (1)Mbum-Day languages (1)Niger-Congo (2)Omotic (1)Volta-Congo (1)Speaker Count BandAll0 (3)1 to 570 (3)24,600 to 795,000 (7)592 to 23,000 (5)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (8)RegionAllAfrica (10)Algeria (1)Angola (1)Asia (1)Bali (1)Benin (1)Botswana (1)Burkina Faso (1)Cameroon (2)Central Africa (2)Central African Republic (1)Chad (3)Cote d'Ivoire (1)Cross River State (1)Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)Djibouti (2)East Africa (4)Egypt (1)Ethiopia (3)Gabon (1)Gambia (1)Ghana (1)Guinea (1)Guinea-Bissau (1)Kenya (4)Liberia (1)Libya (2)Mali (2)Morocco (1)Namibia (1)Niger (3)Nigeria (3)North Africa (1)Oceania (1)Republic of the Congo (1)Senegal (1)Sierra Leone (1)Somalia (2)South Sudan (2)Southern Africa (2)Sub-Saharan Africa (2)Sudan (2)Tanzania (3)The Arabian Peninsula (1)The Horn of Africa (2)The Maghreb (1)The Middle East (1)The Sahel (2)Togo (1)Tunisia (1)Uganda (2)West Africa (3)Zambia (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (6)Classification StatusAllEstablished (8)Number of LanguagesAll1 (8)2 (4)16 to 1,408 (7)3 to 5 (6)6 to 15 (7)Estimated Living LanguagesAll196 (1)210 (1)600 (1)Primary RegionAllSouthern Africa (Kalahari Desert) (1)West Asia and North Africa (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAfrican Language Isolates and Small FamiliesIn Group6 entriesAfrican Sign LanguagesIn Group11 entriesAfroasiatic: Berber and EgyptianIn Group16 entriesAfroasiatic: ChadicIn Group13 entriesAfroasiatic: Cushitic and OmoticIn Group25 entriesAfroasiatic: SemiticIn Group2 entriesBantu LanguagesIn Group48 entriesKhoisanIn Group7 entriesNilo-SaharanIn Group52 entriesOther Niger-CongoIn Group100 entriesSources1. 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.