10 Most spoken Languages in Africa in 2023 - African Vibes
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Africa has a rich culture. The continent has an estimated 2000 languages from over 3000 tribes and 55 countries. Although all the languages are important and beautiful, their popularity varies. Of all the diverse languages, tribes, and groups, there are 10 languages that are more widely spoken on the continent. Here is a list of these most spoken languages in Africa.
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#Africanlanguages #Arabic #Hausa #Berber #Oromo #Swahili #Yoruba
Swahili is definitely the most popular African language in Africa!
Very true 💯👏👏🔥🔥🔥
Very true
I don't think so .
Hausa language Comes before Swahili.
In the 19th century, the Hausa population was estimated to more than 26 millions. How will be the actual estimation in the 21st century?
@@laoualmunda1350 in Tanzania the population is 60,000,000 and all speak Swahili and add to more than 9 countries speak Swahili and half of them is their national language
You need to start learning Swahili because is going to be an African language
@B45 yoo chill
Habari yako rafiki ya mmoja... I'm from Zimbabwe, speaking English and Shona, but much appreciation to Kiswahili... Love it .. Ndinofarira kutaura Swahili.... Mimi ninapenda Kiswahili....
Mzuri sana😍
Hahaha am a Kenya bantu and it's funny that I can understand the meaning of ' ndinofarira kutaura Swahili;....it's like gíkuyu language in central Kenya🤔
Yeah Swahili and Shona are close and I think its easy to learn Swahili for someone from Zimbabwe
I speak Arabic, English and Swahili fluently and I am now working on my French so pretty soon I will be able to speak in all too 4 in the list. Grew up in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya
How was if too grow up in somalia?
how come you dont know amharic or oromiffa if u grew up in ethiopia
Luga wa kwanza wako ni nini?
Libaax baa tahay
If you grow up in Somalia and Ethopian. You would speak those language too.
Respect from Tanzania 🇹🇿 The Land of true Swahili Language
I am Western African, I love to learn Swahili. It sounds beautiful when people are speaking it around. I only know few Swahili words which is sad.
Karibu sana
Welcome Tanzania
I was like you, but later I learned it, and that's when I realized that shwahili is a culture, the language is kiswahili 🤝
@@nahweraamos6958 you are very correct!
Habari gani?
Let me correct this . when you said African languages you don't have to put those European and Asian languages in africa.tell us about Africans language's only
Yep!!!Dead on d nail...
He said 10 most spoken Languages in Africa not that they are african.
Asian is much better the. African
@@kasherimilkong1036 m..hu
Which asian language is here.. if yu mean arabic then reminding yu th whole of north africa speaks arabic. Non african languages are english n french
Yay! Yoruba placed! As a person who speaks Yoruba, it’s nice to see its one of the most spoken!
I speak Lingala; Munukutuba; Kibembe; French; Swedish; Spanish and English. I live in the USA but I was born in Congo/Brazzaville. Great video!!
Well Lingala is almost French it’s more of a dialect in my opionion
I have a friend from northern Namibia, whose first language is Oshiwambo. Her second language is Portuguese and we converse in her third language, English. She is one of the kindest, gentlest, lovliest people on the planet.
When we remove foreign languages, Swahili remains the most spoken language. I am proud to be a swahili speaker and tutor for that matter.
This doesn't add up for me. There are over 200m in Nigeria alone, the majority of who will speak English to some level. Add to that South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda Kenya, Ghana etc. where English is the official language and you will have well over 200m English language speakers in Africa.
@Umunaba TV haaaa
@Umunaba TV I doubt
so basically you see us arabs as foreign to the continent? thank you!
@@wydadiyoun Arab is the second language to africans. The language came from outside. I think you will agree with me on this.
Im proud that Swahili is the first African language in the continent. Bravo my motherland Tanzania🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂💔💔💔oh really u proud
@@maryammohammad841 why are you laugh at him?
@@nyaghosaimawashimbeshe8459 who u r ta take to me
@@nyaghosaimawashimbeshe8459 who are you???
@@maryammohammad841 I'm any afrikan,i and you?
I will never understand why people fight nearly all the time to prove that they are bigger or higher because they are either, ' African, American, European or from wherever else.' Language is just a means of communication, not something that marks greatness. We are all human for crying out loud. We should be proud to be human and alive. Whenever we put the barricade and separation depending on the continent that the ancestors settled in, it just creates more separation between us. Let us unite as humans.
Well said. It should be a means of communication first and foremost. No racial intonations here.
@B45 I couldn't have put it any better.
@B45 Your English is just fine. Quite understandable to be honest. I am quite certain that in time you'll be 'parfait', as the French like to say.
@B45 Cette est très drôle. Well, as long as it's before kicking the bucket, that's very much alright. I perhaps have some night vision binoculars and can see far into many places...
Unfortunately that's not how the world works. Language is way deeper than you put it.
I’m Hausa boy j'aime ma belle langue❤ Nagode🙏
Proudly hausa speaker from Nigeria 🇳🇬 💃 😻
I LOVE ❤️ Africa!!!!!
My heritage!🥰
01. Arabic
02. English
03. French
04. Swahili
05. Hausa
06. Yoruba
07. Igbo
08. Amharic
09. Oromo
10. Berber
You're welcome Lol though the video offers a lot information and is worth the watch
Why do people keep saying tribes, not all Africans are tribal. I don’t know why Africa is the only continent that is labeled as completely tribal. It would’ve been more accurate to say “ethnic groups”. The Akan, Yoruba, Bini & Hausa for example had large kingdoms (a few queendoms) & expansive empires in their pre-colonial histories. Kumasi the capital of the Ashanti Empire, the Oyo Empire, the Kingdom of Benin, Hausa City States etc etc etc
If you don't have a tribe in africa then you are not an african because tribes are originally african not languages.
@@mocua2910 what? There are tribes in Europe . shut up
Agreed! I've always found the term 'tribe' used in reference to African ethnic groups as somewhat derogatory and so I've always stuck to using the term ethnic group as I was taught in the primary school instead.
Plz it's not all Nigeria...
There is a big difference between tribe and tribal.
Nice one. I think you should consider including Pidgin English too. Spoken widely in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon
Yep, if the mixed dialects of English are added to the number of English speakers, there would be no less than 400 million Africans who speak some form of English. Sierra Leoneans, Ghanaians, Togolese, Nigerians, Cameroonians and even Kenyans can understand Pidgin English and can speak it fluently after a few days. Liberians will refuse to speak Pidgin, but they understand it perfectly and would rather speak their own version of Mixed English.
In Sierra Leone we call Pidgin English "krio" which is widely spoken in the country.
Proudly Africa, but I love Swahili after Igbo language
Kiswahili is the future language of Africa
Fantastic :)
Ninajifunza Kiswahili kwa miezi michache. Mimi ni Mmarekani, sina sababu kukijifunza, lakini nikipenda. Ni tofauti, lakini si ngumu sana kwa mzungumzaji wa Kiingereza.
@@frigginjerk kiswahilii cha tanzania hikii na kwa kitabu pia
I strongly disagree with you.
No it is not ! Kiswahili is an important language of East Africa . It has no historical or cultural footprint in West Africa . There are more Nigerians than there are Kiswahili speakers.
No other african language is more inclusive and beutiful than swahil..i see this languge growing and become the most spoken language in Africa.
It's already the most spoken within Africa
Exactly 👊👊👊👊
@@kingdomambassador7918 central Africa to be specific in southen Africa we have our own languages with no Arab influences and we would rather speak them than Swahili
@@vanhuvanhuvese2738 sorry you missed the point my statement isn't about who speaks which language I'm Just pointing out the fact that it's the most spoken language in Africa and I believe the documentary isn't entirely accurate as Yoruba is second most spoken language in Africa and the most spoken language out of Africa
Fufulbe
Nguni language is also widely spoken. Its dialects include Zulu, spoken in South Africa, Xhosa, spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Ndebele, spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Siswati, spoken in South Africa and Kingdom of Eswatini, Ngoni spoken in Zambia, Shangani, spoken in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe....
Ngoni is also spoken in Tanzania🙏🙏🙏
I thought Nguni will top 3
Ngoni is not only the language in Tanzania is tribe to
@@orbitno100 It is actaully, the content maker is not aware
In terms of number Nguni is only second to Swahili
We , the Ag'azian (ኣግኣዝያን) Habesha (ሓበሻ/ ሳባውያን) are the only uses our own alphabet in Kamita 🖤 (ካሚታ) 😍 .
Am very proud of that and u my africans do u proud that too ?
Srry 4 my english 🙆🏿♂️
It is originally from Yemen
@@alinaib5648 any evidence?
@@mussietn1966 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_South_Arabian_script
@@alinaib5648 bravo 👏 ali ph in history
The Amharic language and the alphabet are developed from old South arabic
While at a US university a friend and I met a man from Nigeria. He was from a religious school. He collected a navy ship full of books to take back home. We went to his graduation. He returned to Nigeria.
ok
And you communicated with him in ... English, right?
Swahili is an African nation language actually 🇺🇬
African language 😄
African language 😄
Zanzibar is not a separate county it's a part of Tanzania 🇹🇿. There was Tanganyika and Zanzibar but now there's "The Unted Republic of Tanzania" 🇹🇿
Swahili has the advantage of being adapted in some countries as official language and hence may have more speakers than Hausa. But Hausa has the highest number of indigenous speakers than any language in Africa
You could be right BUT the real use of a language is to communicate; the more people you can reach outside an indigenous (mother-tongue) the greater your advantage in communication (as well as business). There are 46 native language speakers (mother-tongue) in Kenya alone who can somewhat communicate in Kiswahili as well, making a wider market for trade.
@@georgembugua1882 Great!
But in a single state in northern part of Nigeria you may have more than 100 different tribes all of whom communicate perfectly in Hausa. The problem that faces Hausa is that there are some few strong ethnic groups in Nigeria that will rather go to war than allow Hausa to be adopted as official language in the country despite its numerical strength and other advantages it has
Indeed
@Yusuf I. Gwanda In the light of the killings and madness going on in Nigeria today, do you blame those ethnic groups that would not want Hausa language imposed on them? As an Igbo person, I can honestly say that Hausa is a beautiful ethnic group as well as a language. But in my opinion, the language and its associated identity have been hijacked by forces, the majority of whom are not even indigenous Hausas, to bend Nigeria to their born-to-rule goals. You might disagree, and that's fine, but try asking other non Hausa speakers in Nigeria, and they would tell you exactly what I just wrote. I know too many Igbos who speak Hausa and they love it every single day. I'm fairly certain that if we get a Nigeria with good structure, minimal tensions and killings, and zero born-to-rule agenda, many Nigerians won't care if Hausa is dominant or not.
@@ugok9268 The concert of born-to-rule is an imaginary defeatist idea created by some lazy folks who prefer to use blackmail and violent antics rather than political persuasions to clinch power. If Hausa people really nurse the notion of born-to-rule, no single ethnic group will ever rule Nigeria as far as democracy is in place cuz they’ve the numerical strength to win any election.
I believe that Igbo language is spoken by more than 40 million people as the Igbo land in Nigeria alone is one of the, if not the most densely populated area in Africa... I'm proudly Igbo....
I believe that Oromo language is spoken more than 70 million people in Africa.
It has more than 40 million but only spoken im Nigeria ...contrary to swahili which is spoken across more than 10 countries ...
@@dougherty8732 Igbo is spoken in Nigeria, Equatoral Guinea, Garbon and Cameroon.
@@jamesado8224 but he said Swahili is spoken more than 10 countries Igbo only four countries. Can you see the logic! And get prepared because Swahili is pushed to be an African language and abolish English and French
You can believe whatever you want, providing evidence for what you believe is what matters.
Africa's diversity in languages is a gift.
An Oromo is behind this trash video, but Oromos can't be found in a map! they are always under Somali influence, they even dress like us. If we go to Alaska , they will follow us! Now, we know you hate us, we will treat you just like Amharas and Tigre. You think you can hide Somalia in a map? We will treat you the same way Amharas treated you always. Adoon is adoon always!
@@am.b5688 Somali is spoken in Kenya, Ethiopia and in Somali.
I’m Congolese and
The most spoken African language in D.R.Congo is Kiswahili ,more than half of Congolese speak Kiswahili which means over 50 millions of us speak it
So if we put Congo(50m),kenya(50m)and Tanzania(60m)only we already have more than 160 millions of Kiswahili speakers in only 3 countries
thought it was lingala
Rwanda and Burundi, some south sudan.
Parts of Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, and southern parts of South Sudan also use Kiswahili
That’s not how stats are made.
@@Fraciencwa94 But you don't need a formula for an additional stat. Unless you want to use differential equations
Correction: A big chunk of vocabularies in Kiswahili come from Bantu dialects that form the foundation of the Kiswahili language. Words were borrowed from Arabic same way, others were borrowed from other languages such as French, English, German etc. Kiswahili is principally Bantu.. not arabic!
35% of words in Swahili are practically from Arabic
Kiswahili is made up of alot of Arabic words lots.
It's majorly Bantu but significant proportion of it is Arabic. 20-30%. Especially the kiswahili sanifu spoken in the coastal areas.
The original language, Kingozi, had no Arabic. And even today there are pure Bantu alternatives for practically all words of arabic origin
Very true.
Swahili number 1 for me ❤
Very true👊👊👏👏👏
Kabisa
The Fulani tribe are one of the largest ethnic groups and tribes in Africa, with over 40 million people. They live mainly in Western African nations such as Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal and Chad. They have their own language known as Fula. Their origins are unclear but there are many theories as to where they originated. The oral traditions of the Fulani states that they started from what is now present day Jordan. What we do know for sure is that by the 5th century, they were in West Africa. The earliest evidence we have from archaeological digs points to them starting around 6th century BC at the latest.
They are one of the few Africa tribes to adopt Islam, with 98% of the Fulani being Muslim. Prominent Fulani include the first President of Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo, and Major General Mohammadu Buhari, the current President of Nigeria.
Yes you right fulanie is the lagers spoken tribe language in Africa and the largest tribe around the world you can find fulanie around the world name a country or place you will find some one that spoke fulanie
Fulanis originated from Futajalon mountain in Guinea Conakry, they lived on the mountain, they were mostly Normadic with tendencies of robbery, kidnapping, raping, killing and all sort of banditry
Proudly "Omuntu" from the Bantu of SouthWestern Uganda My language is called Rukiga
English is not an African language. Thought you knew that..
Zanzibar is not a separate country (as indicated in your commentary), but a part of Tanzania. Tanzania name comes from the composition of two words: Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is a partly self governing state in Tanzania. Has a president n elections apart from Tanzanias elections.
Me from India.working
in UAE.before omani sultjan ruled Zanzibaar.thatsehy,zanzibaar is famous among the Arabs and other asian African countries..now it's a part of Tanzania..also swahili too much words from Arabic languages..I think so.may be my opinion is wrong.anyone can comment.actually zanzibaar,tanzanian government they can pramote more for tourism bcs zanzibaar is famous out of Africa also famous in Arab world and some Asian countries.
It will be soon inshaAllah
I always dont agree of the idea that only 15millions people speak Kiswahili as first language - Tanzania alone that is not true - even someone like me from burundi where we have our native language, I actually speak Kiswahili more than Kirundi, basically I speak Kiswahili as first language because I am from the lake tanganyika shore areas which most people in Burundi and DR Congo speak Swahili. Some numbers dont add up for Arabic as well - for instance, the population of Egypt is little of 100million aprox 101million and surely at least 90% speak Arabic as first language, Algeria has bout 45million and Morocco about 35mil etc that is already more than 150million of Arabic speakers, so it is not 150million people who speak as Arabic as first language I would say it is close to 200 or more considering Sudan has about 44million people too - we havent mention Tunesia, Libya and Mauritania. Soon, once we have our Swahili nation - Federation of East African nations, Kiswahili will over take French and possibly English.
@B45 probably a whole crate
Swahili should be number 1 and will remain only african language. Arabic, English, french aren't african languages. Rwanda🇷🇼
That is the way it should be as you have stated
Is true
You are right.... Arabic french and English are not African languages
I think its about the most spoken languages in Africa.....not native African languages
@@danielwaweru3723 Well, if that's the case.. why no mention of Pidgin English? it's a major means of communication in several African countries and other Africans relate to it even if they don't actually speak it proper. If you add up the total speakers of pidgin English.. it will likely outnumbers other native languages spoken. Although pidgin is a blend of several other languages plus the normal English.. it's a major language spoken in Africa even without proper written script. Do the math, it has more speakers than the other languages.
i proud of my tribe and my mother tongue hausa language which is the most blessed language among whole africans' language And hausa it's easiest to learn and sweet to speak than most of the world language. it isn't only in Africas countinent hausa is spread. there are miany more Hausar speakers in different countries n the world. and hausa would be the most widely spread and speaking predominant language soon in sha Allah. and we continue to proud of our language always.
I am proudly Igbo, I am a Biafran
Every one shouuld be proud being what he is. No superiority in a race.
Zzzzzzz, Zzzzzz
Comments luganda
In Malawi we speak Chichewa and many more,,,you can only find few people speaking swahili places close to Tanzania.
You're right. But malawiana understand swahili so well because it's really closer to your Chichewa language. In Blantyre, most of the business people speak it very fluently
I am algerian. And WE DO NOT SPEAK FRENCH. Yes small minorities in big cities speak it as a second language. Yes we use some french words in our daily life but just as borrowed words. WE SPEAK ARABIC
Thank you for sharing this, This is a compilation of the most spoken languages in Africa not only in Algeria. :)
French is still the second language after arabic in Algeria but is not an official languages. And the french speaking algerians are not a small minority
Yea but still, Arab is not an African language
@@amarecarter8633 more of an African language than French is
@@gokalzetop4183 its so small less then 5% and they don't speak it for daily life ...stop the 🧢
I learned today, Thank you.
Thanks for this video
*NO ONE IGNORES THE POWER 💪 OF LINGALA AROUND THE WORLD, WHEN THE CONGOLESE SING IN LINGALA THE WHOLE WORLD DANCES AND SINGS ALSO* 🔥🔥🔥 😍😍😍🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
@B45 That's true
While you are playing Lingala music, your mines and other natural resources are stolen. Wake up you Congolese, your country is crying for liberation
Jesus azalaka te: th-cam.com/video/fWWMqLJjXdE/w-d-xo.html
I am learning Kiswahili right now. I want to learn Igbo as well. And some other languages that are not on the list such as Chishona, Sepedi, Tshivenda, Lingala, Makhuwa.
Karibu Tanzania....hongera kwa kujifunza Kiswahili.
Shona is one of the easiest language to learn
Population speaking Kiswahili is more than mentioned, DRC has 90million add Tz Kenya 73, 47 that's 210 million ,it's also spoken in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda so it's probably over 300 million speakers
Wonderful history of African languages. Regards from PNG land of thousands tribe and almost 900 languages
Somali language 🇸🇴,Spoken in Somalia 🇸🇴,Ethiopia,Kenya and Djibouti 🇩🇯
Lol Somali Language is not spoken in my country Kenya .
@@angiejacks1835 you are kidding. In Kenya we are missing 3 regions and 5 million people. Mandera, Garisa and Wajir regions are Somali regions where the Somali language is spoken, and the people are Somali.
@@angiejacks1835 it is dear
@@Maandhoore exactly
Another thing, "Berber" is not the correct term for referring to the ethnic group. The correct term is "Amazigh." Cogito made a video on them and used that term to refer to them.
Yes brother you're right am one of them it is Amazigh or Tamazight
That's why we should not let outsiders to tell our stories
Isn't this about languages, and not about ethnicities?
@@ThePathOfEudaimonia Yes, but that doesn't mean that ethnicity isn't important to keep track of, especially in Africa.
@@jackl.1759 Yes, of course I agree about that! Though that doesn't seem to be the topic of this video.
i am so proud of yoruba , even the nigeria pegin english is also affected by the yoruba language , and the afro beat
Thank you this instructive video. I expected it to focus on indigenous African languages but it is still good. One mistake you made is to put Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, neighbouring with Senegal. I will be happy to see that mistake corrected. Finally, is this video available in the nine other languages mentioned here? All the best
Fufulde should be very popular. I think pidjin is already a language on its own and iit is already very widely spoken
Exactly
It should have been top 5 also.
Is English
You missed Djibouti from French speaking countries. Current Oromo language speakers are established to be more than 45 million. Your data may be a little older.
I'm so happy to hear Hachalu Hundesa's song. Thank you so much for your choice and I recommend everybody to learn more about Hachalu for his human right activist and he should be well known across the world just like Nelson Mendella.
The Somali language is most of popular
Used language in East of Africa almost
30ml people speak
Is very rich language poetry and the songs is a nearest Arabic language
Cap 😂😂
Uongo🤣🤣🤣
@@NgafutimmohmwangiMwangi-dx5ik hiyo ni uongo
Am a Nigerian and I can speed swahili vizuri sana
Safi sana
ahaa
hamna shidah bwana
Lake Victoria is not a lake in Europe but Africa. So the name Swahili may have been given by Arab traders to the speakers of the language but does not denote that it's a language of Arabic origin. Swahili is pure Bantu with Bantu morphology, only borrowed a few words from Arabic but still have alternative original Bantu words.
English_ Kiswahili_ Kigiryama(KenyaCoast)
One _Moja/Mosi _Mwenga/Mòsi
Two _Mbili _Mbiri
Three _Tatu _Tàhu
Four. _ Nne. _Ne
Five. _Tano. _Tsano
Eight. _Nane. _Nàne
Nine. _Tisa/Kenda. _Chenda
Ten. _Kumi. _ Kumi
Twenty. _Ishirini/ _ Mirongo miri
Miongo miwili
Thirty. _Thelathini/. _ Mirongo mihahu
Miongo mitatu
In essence if you speak Swahili you can get upto 60% of most Bantu languages but can hardly get 10% of Arabic!
Very interesting
Thank you, asantee, شكرا
Lingala too is spoken in DRC Congo,Angola, Congo Brazzaville and many more
Not in Angola 🇦🇴 my sister
We speak Soomaali in Somalia. Arabic & Soomaali language are both ancient and related member of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Somali language was spojen before and during times of pharaohs.
Ooh that's why Somalis are warriors.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ahmedhassandjama9837 Ma ilaabi kari Af-Soomaali walaal.
Shaydaanta waxay leedahay Somalia waxa looga hadlaa afka oromada mar kale waxay tiri sawahi ayaa looga hadla markale waxa tiri Somalia carabi ayaa looga hadlaa qoftaan waxay illatahay naba taqaano oo afkeena na maba taqaano sidowkale tirada dadka afsomali ku hadlaana mabataqaano wax qaldan naga aaminsantahay
@@macalincaalin6670 where is Somalia (the country) in the map presented here
This whole presentation is biased...
Eritrea. Official languages are:
Native Language: Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Kunama, Nara, Saho Arebic is number 6 following by English, and Italian.
loved it very beautiful nations
Great video! I learned a lot.
Glad to hear it!
How many people speak portuguese?
Broken English (Pidgin ) in West Africa is another language that you missed and it’s been used throughout, Nigeria, Ghana, Camaroon. Gambia and Sierra Leone.
It's not a language
If pidgin is not a language why would BBC have a program in pidgin for West and Central Africa?
You already said is a broken English 😂😂😂
@@topenoel1931 it is already considered a language
It's a creole and not a standard language. And it has no official or indigenous status as it's more like a mix of various languages.
Nice video
nice content
Hausa language suppose be Number two After Swahili Hausa must follow I am proud to be Hausa
Fulfulde or fulani is one of the most spoken languages in Africa, this language also has its alphabet called #Adlam studied across Africa from Guinea to Sudan.
Awesome information. Keeping a note for this. thank you
Adlam is invented/artificial created just recently.
Fulfulde is not on the top ten list
Facts
I'm surprised it's not on the list
I learned Swahili, I really just love it.
thank you
Berber is the original language of North Africa and many other countries.
Arabic took place after Arabs from Asia arrived.
The reason Arabic seems to foreign people more popular in these areas than berber is that it is the language in which the holy Quraan is written and most of people in these countries are Muslims, they pray in arabic and study in it.
Berber people are very friendly and open, they live mostly in countrysides, a lot of them still have old and traditionally made houses, they maintain traditional food, when you say berber you say very rich culture.
Berber is also known as Tamazight/ Tachlhit (language) which has its own historical alphabet called Tifinagh.
Berber people are called Imazighn/Ichlhiyn.
* "how are you" in Tachlhit is "manzakin" or "mankan tgit"
* "thanks" = "tanmirt"
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If anyone wants some further information about this, if this berber / amazigh culture seems interesting to you or if you wanna learn some words and terms just for fun or curiosity, please feel free to ask me, I will share anything with you, with pleasure and happiness.
I don't know if I am allowed to put my email or any contact info here, so I'm gonna skip it for this moment.
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The Mandingo Language and the Fula Language in west Africa.
That map must be some kind of fever dream.... where's Somalia?
Wut
Waxan leenahay luuqad aan Ku hadalno hadan somaali nahay marka maba aqaano sawaaxili
Beautiful ❤️
I liked this allot i am swahili speaker from zanzibar, Tanzania. Is the language which has been discussed to be used in AU meeting as its the mother language of africa it self
Nguni langauge (zulu xhosa ndebele swati ndebele in and around South Africa is spoken by over 40 million people)
Sotho languages (Tswana, Pedi, South Sotho, Lozi) is spoken by over 40mill in Southern Africa
I like that Hausa song.. Anyone knows the title? Igbo language is spoken by more than 40m pple... Proudly Igbo..
Umar m sharif
ciwon idanu by umar m sharif
Up for sure the song was my favorite one
Am a Zimbabwean I speak the language called ciTonga (Zambezi)which is a native language of the the Zambezi River,,most people distort information saying David Livingstone was the first to discover Vic Falls ,,, yet the BaTonga are the native of area ,,,, however Tonga is spoken in Zambia as well , it have more than 19 million speakers ,,,
Relation to Xitsonga language in SA?
David livingstone, what about native peoples who were there before him?
@@ambrosiamlinga8402 Thus why I said most people /historians distorted information saying David Livingstone discovered Vic Falls,,,,yet there were Tonga people who lived in that area for centuries and centuries
How do you call Victoria's Fall in your language?
David Livingstone was your Diego Cao, going around "discovering" places that people already knew.🤣
Mandinque or Mandingo language is one of the widely spoken languages in West Africa.
Kiswahili is a bantu language, the Maasai are nilotic speakers which is far far from swahili. The first pictures you showed there for swahili are Maasai of which kiswahili is their second language and comes mainly as kiswahili being national languages in kenya and tanzania
Its about languages not tribes.....while conversing with a maasai you will probably communicate in swahili
I think you're being trivial, many of the Masais in Kenya would speak Swahili with great ease
No you misunderstood,
masaai are just shown as a symbol of a country. Many countries they know Kenya and Tanzania because of Masai and the big 5,
I think Masai is among the icon of Africa as a whole.
Images of Maasai people are used to represent all Kenyan and Tanzanian people 😂😂. Proud of our warriors
@@simplesimon6730 yes I agree
I love Swahili my mother tongue .
My parents lived and worked in Uganda in the 1950s, and returned to England with some Swahili. When I was a child, certain things were always expressed in Swahili so acquired a number of phrases. One day at school, my French teacher volunteered that he also spoke Swahili. At the end of the lesson, he almost collapsed in disbelief when I said, "asante bwana".
You forgot the Somali language which is spoken and official language in both Somalia and Djoubiti and also spoken in major parts of Kenya and Ethiopia
hi african vibes
can i ask you question. where do get the african map that you advertising it is to stay the sentitive matters.
My experience living in Kenya was that most people spoke three languages with greater or lesser fluency: their tribal language, Kiswahili, and English. I bear this in mind every time I run across an American racist who can barely manage one language.
Am a Kenyan and yes I speak three languages fluently
Hahaha..yes its us... speaking three languages is fun😁
I love to learn Swahili more ✍️
I'm ready to teach you Swahili my dear
I'm a Ghanaian I will like to learn Amharic, Swahili, Igbo, Yoruba
I love the African diversity and I am proud to be part of it
This is very interesting. had no idea about the many languages spoken there.
That is your own problem
I mean these are just the 10 most spoken ones. There are over 2000 languages spoken in Africa, 500 in Nigeria alone
I am surprised that you didn't mention the Mandingo language. Mandingo is spoken in up to 10 countries especially in West Africa. It has so many dialects as well.
Anyway, thank you for your research.
Mandingo is speaking Ghana ivory cost. Senegal. Mali .Guni. bokinafaso.etc
They don’t know
I am too, to my understanding the Mandingo is the largest in Africa just think of how many countries that speaks Mandingo in Africa if am not lying it is every where
@@musahasomah1041 It is also spoken in the Gambia, in Mauritania. I think that a small number of the population in Sierra Leone et Liberia also speak some form of Mandingo language.
@@bintyseisay5918 Yes, the Mali Empire extended from Capo Verde to lake Chad and from parts of Mauritania and Algeria to parts of the the Gulf of Guinea. Mandingo was the language of commerce and administration.
Your name, "Seisay" is written "Cissé" in many French speaking countries. The name of the former President of Sierra Leone, "Ahmed Tejan Kabah" would be written "Amed Tidiane Kaba" in French speaking countries.
I'm from American I would love to learn Swahili as kid back in the 70's I was taught a little ( bad words) The U.S doesn't teach black nothing about Africa language .. I know English isn't my language in school I struggle to speak it .
very nice, would love to see languages 11-20.
I think you forgot about Mandingo Language spoken by so many millions across west Africa
Fulfulbe is one of the most popular languages in Africa
The Mandingo language is one of the most spoken languages in West Africa. It's the principle language in countries like Mali, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Guinea, and Western Senegal. It has over 35 million native speakers.
As is often the case, Fulbe is left out, with about 40 Million speakers, and so is Akan/Twi with a similar speaker population size, as well as Gbe
I think African countries have agreed to teach Swahili to their population to grow integration within the region. Swahili is basically no one's language more unifying
East African language
Hardly any country in Northern and west Africa speaks swahila
No. I will never speak Swahili.
@@fullmetaltheorist Is good to speak Kiswahili
@@yusrababuu No. Just no. Keep it to yourself.
Igbo has its home in Nigeria where it is spoken in different dialects by about 70 million people who are part of former Biafra republic about to be restored. French, English are languages if the colonial masters and therefore foreign to Africa.
Igbo spoken by 70 million people???. Lmao. I see you forgot to take your meds.
Great Kannada language Poet from India Ramachandra Sharma aware of Swahili language. He was in Zambia 20 years. ಕನ್ನಡ
Yoruba language is also spoken outside Africa in Brazil.
Ewe language was an ancient language spoken in Togo ,BENIN,GHANA, NIGERIA and taught in universities in GERMANY.
Of course
1:English
2:Arabic
3:French
4:Pigin
5:Yoruba
6:Igbo
7: swahili
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U are so right. I was about to say the same. I don't know how people do their research.