African languages

E786067
indigenous languages of Africa language group

African languages are the diverse group of indigenous languages spoken across the African continent, encompassing hundreds of distinct tongues from major families such as Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
African languages canonical 1
Sub-Saharan African languages 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous languages of Africa ⓘ
language group ⓘ
areCharacterizedBy high linguistic diversity ⓘ
rich noun class systems in many Niger-Congo languages ⓘ
tonal systems in many languages ⓘ
use in oral traditions and storytelling ⓘ
areSpokenIn Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
Central Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
East Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
areUsedFor cultural expression in Africa ⓘ
daily communication in many African communities ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
includeLanguage !Xóõ language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Akan language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Amharic language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bambara language ⓘ
Berber languages ⓘ
Fula language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hausa language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Igbo language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Khoekhoe language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kikuyu language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kinyarwanda language ⓘ
Kirundi language ⓘ
Lingala language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Luo language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ndebele language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Oromo language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sesotho language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Shona language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Somali language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Swahili language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tigrinya language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tswana language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wolof language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Xhosa language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yoruba language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Zulu language NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorLanguageFamily Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Khoisan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Niger-Congo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nilo-Saharan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Geʽez script NERFINISHED ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

NʼKo script NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tifinagh script NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

East African languages → arePartOf → African languages ⓘ
East African languages → arePartOf → African languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sub-Saharan African languages