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Where do the speakers of the Afro-Asiatic super-family primarily live?
Where do the speakers of the Afro-Asiatic super-family primarily live?
Northern Africa, Sahara, Horn of Africa, around Lake Chad
Which sub-group of the Afro-Asiatic super-family is spoken mainly in the Horn of Africa?
Which sub-group of the Afro-Asiatic super-family is spoken mainly in the Horn of Africa?
Semitic
Where is the Omotic language sub-family spoken?
Where is the Omotic language sub-family spoken?
Ethiopia
Which super-family has the most significant number of speakers according to rough estimates?
Which super-family has the most significant number of speakers according to rough estimates?
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Where are Bantu speakers predominantly located?
Where are Bantu speakers predominantly located?
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Which language family does Kiswahili belong to?
Which language family does Kiswahili belong to?
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Where are the Kordofanian languages spoken?
Where are the Kordofanian languages spoken?
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How many subgroups is the Nilo-Saharan Super-Family divided into?
How many subgroups is the Nilo-Saharan Super-Family divided into?
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Where do the speakers of the Khoisan languages live?
Where do the speakers of the Khoisan languages live?
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Which language was brought to Africa by the Muslim Arabs between the seventh and eleventh centuries?
Which language was brought to Africa by the Muslim Arabs between the seventh and eleventh centuries?
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Study Notes
Language Distribution in Africa
- Speakers of the Afro-Asiatic super-family primarily live in the Middle East and North Africa.
- The Cushitic sub-group of the Afro-Asiatic super-family is spoken mainly in the Horn of Africa.
- The Omotic language sub-family is spoken in southwestern Ethiopia.
- The Niger-Congo super-family has the most significant number of speakers, according to rough estimates.
- Bantu speakers are predominantly located in Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
- Kiswahili belongs to the Bantu language family.
- The Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Kordofan region of western Sudan.
- The Nilo-Saharan Super-Family is divided into five subgroups.
- Speakers of the Khoisan languages live in Southern Africa, primarily in South Africa and Namibia.
- Arabic was brought to Africa by the Muslim Arabs between the seventh and eleventh centuries.
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Test your knowledge on the classification of African languages into four super-families based on linguistic relationships and vocabulary similarities. Explore the Congo-Kordofanian, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and other language groups in Africa.
