African Languages - Basic Inroduction

The recent statistical report says that, in the continent of Africa there are more than 200 languages spoken by the people.To be specific the number of languages, spoken in African continent lies between 2000 and 3000 languages.

Apart from this there are over 8000  dialects, that fits into these 300 languages.The major four classification of  language families that are spoken in Africa can be divided into six types namely

1)Afro - Asiatic

2)Nilo - Saharan

3)Niger - Congo A

4)Niger - Congo B

5)Khoi - San

6)Austronesian

The image below shows exactly where these kind of languages are spoken

In this article let us discuss about one of the family , Khoi - San family

Khoi - San language family

The image below shows the group of people who speak Khoi - San language family

In the Khoi - San language family, more than 12 languages are available and it is divided into two subgroups

i)South African Khoi -  San

ii)East African Khoi - San

Report says that there are around two lakhs to three lakhs people in Africa speak these languages.

Languages of South African Khoi - San:

The languages of South African Khoi - San includes

i)Nama

ii)Naron

These two type oflanguages are spoken mainly

i)In and around the Kalahari Desert of northern South Africa

ii)Southwestern Botswana

iii)Namibia

Languages of East African Khoi - San:

The languages of East African Khoisan mainly includes

i)Sandawe

ii)Hadza

These two type of languages are spokenmainly in Tanzania.

#)Many people were exposed to a Khoi - San language through the actor Nǃxau during the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy.The image below shows some of the people who speak  Kho - Sian language