Hello Displorers, Welcome back to another exciting video and thanks for watching. In this video, ze qre excited to present to you the top 10 most spoken languages in Africa. It is common knowledge that Africa is a huge continent—the second largest and most populous continent in the world. Spanning over a land area of 30.3 million square kilometers, Africa is home to around 2000 languages and has a population of about 1.216 billion people belonging to different native tribes and groups. The 54 countries in Africa all have a wide range of languages as diverse as their ancestral tribes. But some of these languages are common to every city in this vast land. African languages form part of four language groups, namely Afro-Asiatic covering Northern Africa, Central Sahara and the Horn of Africa, Nilo-Saharian covering Central and Eastern Africa, Niger-Congo covering Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa and Khoisan, covering the western part of Southern Africa.

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Without any further ado, here are the 10 most spoken languages in Africa.

10. Hausa

The Hausa people are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, making the Hausa language the most popular language in the country. Most speakers live in northern Nigeria or the Southern Republic of Niger, though it’s also popular in other parts of West Africa. Because of its usefulness as a lingua franca in trade, many learn Hausa as a second language.
The language is present mostly in West African countries like Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Benin, and Togo. However, it’s also in East African countries like Eritrea and Sudan, and Central African countries like Congo and Cameroon. Hausa makes to the list of most spoken languages in Africa due to its significance in trade, commerce and business across Nigeria and West African region. Hausa is one of the few African languages that is taught in International Universities due to the huge amount of literature that it possesses.


9. IGBO
One of Nigeria’s main languages, Igbo is spoken by over 20 million people, with a significant amount of speakers in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. The language has more than 20 dialects, with Central Igbo being the most prevalent. The language was made prominent by author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the popular book “Things Fall Apart” and wrote most of his books in Igbo, mirroring and popularizing Igbo culture. Igbo has more than 20 dialects and descends from the Volta-Niger branch of Niger-Congo family of languages, with the Igbo people being the largest ethnic group in Africa. Other Igbo speaking communities can be found in Brazil, Jamaica, USA, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Ghana.


8. Amharic

Amharic is the second-largest Semitic dialect on the continent after Arabic, with over 25 million people and mainly spoken in Ethiopia. Being a native language, Amharic is one of the very few languages having its own alphabet, while most others use Arabic or Latin letters. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating from the Middle East. Amharic, along with Arabic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya, are the most spoken Semitic language in the world by way of native speakers. It is written in the Ge’ez or Ethiopic script, with over 30 different characters




7. Yoruba

Yoruba is one of the cardinal languages of Nigeria, accounting for over 30 million speakers in Benin, Nigeria, and Togo. Other populations speaking Yoruba as an everyday language are found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Code-switching between Yorùbá and English is a way of life for educated Yorùbá-English bilinguals. They use Yorùbá mainly in the family setting and informal situations such as village or tribal meetings. Translation of the Bible in 1884 by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba speaker, in resulted in the development of a standard written form of Yoruba that has been widely adopted across the dialects. Standard Yoruba is the literary form of the language learned at school and heard on radio and television


6. OROMO
Oromo is spoken by over 30 million people in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Egypt. The Oromo people account for more than 40% of the Ethiopian population and are the largest ethnic group in the country. The writing of the language was forbidden between 1974 and 1991 under the Mengistu regime, even though limited usage of the Ge’ez script was allowed. After 1991, the language adopted the Latin alphabet. It falls

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