The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

These maps from Harvard's AfricaMap project illustrate just how diverse the African continent really is, including its thousands of languages and ethnic groups, incredible biodiversity and the ...

DURBAN - Google web mapping service, Google Maps, has added three African languages Afrikaans, Swahili and IsiZulu to its service. Altogether the mapping service made an addition of 39 new ...

Africa is a continent rich with language diversity, with around 2,000 languages thought to be in use. All are considered official languages of the African Union. Nigeria alone has over 500 living ...

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa, accompanied by a Language Map. By Robert Needham Cust. 2 vols. (London: Trübner, 1883.) ...

He points out key problems from the map: The first issue is assuming that “The most spoken language in any country is often obvious; usually, it’s the official language of the country.” In Africa this ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. One recurring idea is to carve up the continent into smaller states on the basis of ethnicity or its proxies, like shared language.