Home›African Language Families›Region›AfricaBrowse ByAfricaRegion 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.FactsAfricaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested2100 1AfricaFilter Results190 entriesMacro-areaAllAfrican Language Isolates and Small Families (4)African Sign Languages (7)Afroasiatic: Berber and Egyptian (9)Afroasiatic: Chadic (10)Afroasiatic: Cushitic and Omotic (19)Afroasiatic: Semitic (2)Bantu Languages (27)Khoisan (6)Nilo-Saharan (37)Other Niger-Congo (69)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAfro-Asiatic (3)Benue-Congo (4)Chadic (3)Cushitic (2)Ethio-Semitic (1)Niger-Congo (5)Omotic (2)Volta-Congo (2)Speaker Count BandAll0 (4)1 to 570 (2)24,600 to 795,000 (25)592 to 23,000 (6)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (39)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (59)Classification StatusAllEstablished (118)Number of LanguagesAll1 (24)2 (9)16 to 1,408 (49)3 to 5 (18)6 to 15 (42)In GroupAllAfrican Language Isolates and Small Families (4)African Sign Languages (7)Afroasiatic: Berber and Egyptian (9)Afroasiatic: Chadic (10)Afroasiatic: Cushitic and Omotic (19)Afroasiatic: Semitic (2)Bantu Languages (27)Khoisan (6)Nilo-Saharan (37)Other Niger-Congo (69)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Adamawa languagesAfricaAdamawa-UbangiAfricaAdamorobe Sign LanguageAfricaAfro-AsiaticAfricaAgaw languagesAfricaAngas languagesAfricaAroidAfricaAtlantic-CongoAfricaAtlas languagesAfricaBafia languagesAfricaBak languagesAfricaBamileke languagesAfricaBanda languagesAfricaBangimeAfricaBangi-Ntomba languagesAfricaBantoid languagesAfricaBantuAfricaBayotAfricaBeboid languagesAfricaBendi languagesAfricaBenue-CongoAfricaBerber languagesAfricaBertaAfricaBiu-Mandara languagesAfricaBole-Tangale languagesAfricaCangin languagesAfricaCentral Delta languagesAfricaCentral Plateau languagesAfricaCentral SudanicAfricaCentral Tano languagesAfricaChadicAfricaCross River languagesAfricaCushiticAfricaDajuAfricaDakoid languagesAfricaDefoid languagesAfricaDizoidAfricaDogonAfricaDullay languagesAfricaDuru languagesAfricaEast Chadic languagesAfricaEast Cushitic languagesAfricaEast Zenati languagesAfricaEastern Berber languagesAfricaEastern Grassfields languagesAfricaEastern JebelAfricaEastern Nilotic languagesAfricaEastern Sudanic languagesAfricaEdekiri languagesAfricaEdoid languagesAfricaShowing 1 to 50 of 190, page 1 of 4.1234Next →Sources1. 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.