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Region names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.

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Estimated Living Languages
2100 1
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Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State, Nigeria

Region
1 entry

Angola, chiefly the north-west

Region
1 entry

Arab countries, including the Arabian Peninsula

Region
1 entry

Around Ébrié Lagoon, Ivory Coast

Region
1 entry

Atlas Mountains and Rif Mountains of Morocco

Region
1 entry

Benue State, east-central Nigeria, and surrounding regions

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1 entry

Botswana, South Africa and Namibia

Region
1 entry

Burkina Faso

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1 entry

Burkina Faso, northern Ghana and Benin

Region
1 entry

Cameroon

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1 entry

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon

Region
1 entry

Cameroon, Nigeria

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1 entry

Central African Republic and neighboring areas

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1 entry

Central Nigeria

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1 entry

Central reaches of the Congo River and adjacent areas

Region
1 entry

Central, Eastern and Southern Africa

Region
1 entry

Chad and southern Libya

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1 entry

Chad, Central African Republic

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1 entry

Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda

Region
1 entry

Chad, Sudan

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1 entry

Chad, Sudan, Central African Republic

Region
1 entry

Darfur region of western Sudan and adjoining Chad

Region
1 entry

Eastern Ghana to western Nigeria

Region
1 entry

Ethiopia

Region
2 entries

Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan

Region
1 entry

Ethiopia.

Region
1 entry

From southern Egypt to northern Tanzania

Region
1 entry

Ghana and Ivory Coast

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1 entry

Ghana and Togo

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1 entry

Horn of Africa

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1 entry

Horn of Africa, East Africa

Region
1 entry

Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Togo

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1 entry

Jebel Gule, Blue Nile State, Sudan

Region
1 entry

Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda

Region
1 entry

Kenya and northern Tanzania

Region
1 entry

Kordofan and Darfur, Sudan; Wadai, Chad

Region
1 entry

Mederdra (Mauritania), Akoubounou (Niger)

Region
1 entry

Mountains of the Ghana-Togo borderland

Region
1 entry

Namibia and the Kalahari Desert

Region
1 entry

Niger, Nigeria

Region
1 entry

Nigeria and Cameroon

Region
2 entries

Nigeria, Benin, and Togo

Region
1 entry

Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon

Region
1 entry

Nigeria.

Region
1 entry

North Africa and the Berber diaspora

Region
1 entry

North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East

Region
1 entry

Northeastern Nigeria

Region
1 entry

Northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria

Region
1 entry

northern Cameroon, eastern Nigeria

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1 entry

Northern Ghana, adjacent Burkina Faso and Togo

Region
1 entry

Nuba Hills

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1 entry

Nuba Mountains of Sudan

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1 entry

Nuba Mountains of the South Kordofan region of Sudan

Region
1 entry

Nuba Mountains, Sudan

Region
2 entries

Plateau State, north-central Nigeria

Region
2 entries

Raja County, South Sudan

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1 entry

Rivers State, Bayelsa State and Nigeria

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1 entry

SE Nigeria (Rivers State)

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1 entry

Senegal, Guinea-Bissau

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1 entry

Small area east of Dakar, Senegal

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1 entry

South-central Ethiopia

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1 entry

South-central Nigeria, west of the Niger River

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1 entry

Southeastern Nigeria and adjacent regions of Cameroon

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1 entry

Southeastern Nigeria and lower southwest Cameroon

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1 entry

South-eastern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon

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1 entry

Southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon

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1 entry

Southern Africa

Region
1 entry

Southern Africa, mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini.

Region
1 entry

Southern Cameroon and neighbouring areas

Region
1 entry

Southern Chad, northern Cameroon

Region
1 entry

Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Region
1 entry

Southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo and southeast Ghana

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1 entry

Southern Nigeria, Niger Delta

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1 entry

Southern Nuba Mountains, in the south of Sudan.

Region
1 entry

southwest Cameroon

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1 entry

Southwest Cameroon and southeast Nigeria

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1 entry

Southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

Region
1 entry

southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon

Region
1 entry

southwestern Ethiopia

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1 entry

Southwestern Ethiopia and southeastern South Sudan

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1 entry

Spoken along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania.

Region
1 entry

Spoken in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania.

Region
1 entry

Sub-Saharan Africa

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1 entry

Sub-Saharan Africa, not farther west than Nigeria

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1 entry

Sub-Saharan Africa, not further west than Nigeria

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1 entry

Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Chad

Region
1 entry

Swahili Coast

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1 entry

Tanzania

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1 entry

Taraba and Adamawa states, eastern Nigeria

Region
1 entry

The Maghreb

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1 entry

The Nuba Hills (Nuba Mountains) of Sudan.

Region
1 entry

The Nuba Hills of Sudan.

Region
1 entry

Togo, Benin and Nigeria

Region
1 entry

Tunisia and Libya

Region
1 entry

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC

Region
1 entry

Uganda, Tanzania, the DRC and Rwanda

Region
2 entries

West-central Nigeria

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1 entry

Western Congo and Gabon

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1 entry

Western High Plateau of Cameroon

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1 entry

Western High Plateau of Cameroon and Taraba state of Nigeria

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1 entry

Western High Plateau, Cameroon

Region
1 entry

western Kenya, eastern Uganda

Region
1 entry

Western Kenya, eastern Uganda, northern Tanzania

Region
2 entries

Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana

Region
1 entry
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Africa
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Quote, Lead section
The 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.
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