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Arabic, spoken in both Asia and Africa, is by far the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language today, with around 300 million native speakers, while the Ethiopian Amharic language has around 25 million.
Languages of the Afroasiatic phylum are spoken in the Middle East and in North, West, East, and Central Africa. The total number of speakers is estimated to be in excess of 300 million. Some languages have a very large number of speakers, for example Arabic, spoken in North Africa and the Middle East; Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia ...
Ethnologue estimates the number of languages spoken in Africa as 2144 (Eberhard et al., 2021 ). 1 As can be seen from its lack of shading in Map 1, the language of Madagascar, Malagasy, is not an African language; it is an Austronesian language, akin to many of the languages of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Map 1.
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Jun 17, 2020 · Today, there are almost 500 million people who speak an Afro-Asiatic language natively. At the top of the table is Arabic, with a whopping 300 million speakers. The next most spoken languages are Hausa (Chadic) with 40 million speakers, Oromo (Cushitic) with 34 million, Amharic (Semitic) with 25 million, and Somali (Cushitic) with 17 million.
Afro-Asiatic languages, languages of common origin found in the northern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some islands and adjacent areas in Western Asia. About 250 Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken today by a total of approximately 250 million people. Numbers of speakers per language.
Sep 6, 1999 · The Semitic languages are spoken in much of northern Africa and the Near East (see Fig. 1.). It has the most speakers of any of the phyla, in large part due to Muslim conquests of the seventh century (Bomhard 1994:24). Arabic alone has about 100 million speakers.
The major branches of Afro-Asiatic are Semitic, Berber, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. Berber languages are spoken by perhaps 15 million people in enclaves scattered across North Africa from Morocco to northwestern Egypt and in parts of the western Sahara.
