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Aug 1, 2017 · Indigenous Languages of Chad . Linguists report over 120 indigenous languages in Chad. These tongues are divided into three large language families: Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan. The Afro-Asiatic language family is further divided into the following subgroups: Semitic languages (Chadian Arabic, for example) and Chadic languages.
This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic. The geographical spread probably reflects the chronological and historical ...
Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in the country and had 2,540,000 native speakers out of the total population of 5,254,000 in 2006. The remaining residents primarily speak other languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages.
e. There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people. [5] [6] The major native languages, in terms of population, are ...
The autosomal DNA of Nilotic peoples has been examined in a study on the genetic clusters of various populations in Africa. According to the researchers, Nilotes generally form their own African genetic cluster, although relatively most closely related to other Nilo-Saharan populations, more distantly followed by Niger-Congo speakers. The ...
The two most widely spoken languages in Ethiopia are Oromo, which has about 25,000,000 speakers (about 34% of the population) and Amharic, which has approximately 21.5 million speakers (about 30% of the population). Amharic, which is from the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, is the language that is most commonly ...
Aug 20, 2022 · four language families … are 73 distinct languages in Ethiopia (Girma 2009), belonging to four language families: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan. Table 1 shows the total number of mother-tongue speakers of each of the four language families, as well as totals for the most populous language for each group (cf.
