10 Questions
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?
Semitic
Where is the Omotic language sub-family spoken?
Ethiopia
Which super-family has the most significant number of speakers according to rough estimates?
Niger-Congo
Where are Bantu speakers predominantly located?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Which language family does Kiswahili belong to?
Bantu language group
Where are the Kordofanian languages spoken?
Nuba hills, south of the Republic of Sudan
How many subgroups is the Nilo-Saharan Super-Family divided into?
six
Where do the speakers of the Khoisan languages live?
in and around the Kalahari Desert of northern South Africa, Southwestern Botswana, and Namibia
Which language was brought to Africa by the Muslim Arabs between the seventh and eleventh centuries?
Arabic language
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.
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