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African language

The African languages are currently divided into the following four language families

• Afro-Asiatic languages (Semitic, etc.)
• Niger-Congo languages (Bantu, etc.)
• Nilo-Saharan languages
• Khoisan languages

Table of contents

1 Non-African families 2 Studying African Languages 3 See also

Non-African families

The above are families indigenous to Africa. Several African languages belong to non-African families: Malagasy is an Austronesian language, and Afrikaans is Indo-European, as is the lexifier of most African creoles.

• External link: Ethnologue.com's Africa : More on African languages and language families.

Studying African Languages

In Europe there is a project going on building up a common curriculum in African Languages and Linguistics called EEQUALL (European Equivalences In African Languages And Linguistics). It will allow students to get credit points from different universities.

• External link: EEQUALL (currently a bit outdated)
• External link: African Languages at the K-12 Level Looks at how American schools are studying African languages.

See also

• Polyglotta Africana
• Joseph H. Greenberg

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