Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity. Of these languages, four main groupings can be distinguished
- Afro-Asiatic
(approximately 200 languages) covering nearly Northern Africa (including the horn of Africa, Central Sahara et the top Nile)
2.Nilo-Saharian
gathering approximately 140 languages with some eleven millions speakers scattered in Central and Eastern Africa.
3. Niger-Saharian (Niger-Congo)
covering the two third of Africa with as a principal branch the Niger-Congo which gathers more than 1000 languages with some 200 millions speakers. The Bantu languages.
of Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa form a sub-group of the Niger Congo branch.
4. Khoisan
gathering about thirty languages in Western part of Southern Africa.
All African languages are considered official languages of the African Union
