Tags: Language.
There are 1250 to 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families:Afroasiatic is spread throughout the Middle East North Africa the Horn of Africa and parts of the SahelNilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad (disputed validity)Niger–Congo (Bantu and non-Bantu) covers West Central Southeast and Southern AfricaKhoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and BotswanaAustronesian is spoken in Madagascar.Indo-European is spoken on the southern tip of the continent.There are several other small families and language isolates as well as obscure languages that have yet to be classified.
