Editing Languages of Africa (section)

===Official languages===
{{see also|Languages of the African Union}}
[[File:Official languages in Africa.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|Official languages in Africa:
{| cellpadding="0"
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| {{legend|#FF8C00|[[Afrikaans]]}}  || {{legend|#8EB423|[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]}}
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| {{legend|#19822D|[[Arabic]]}} || {{legend|#DAC716|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]}}
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| {{legend|#C35A91|[[English language|English]]}} || {{legend|#55433B|[[Swahili language|Swahili]]}}
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| {{legend|#415096|[[French language|French]]}} || {{legend|#000000|other African languages}}
|}]]
;Afroasiatic
*Berber (Amazigh):
**[[Standard Moroccan Amazigh]] in [[Morocco]]
**[[Standard Algerian Berber]] in [[Algeria]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Algeria reinstates term limit and recognises Berber language |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35515769 |work=BBC News}}</ref> 
**[[Tamasheq language|Tamasheq]] in Mali<ref name=":0">{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=29 September 2017 |title=JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI |url=https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2017/mali-jo-2017-39.pdf |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=sgg-mali.ml |quote=Langues nationales : langues considérées comme propres à une nation ou à un pays. Selon la Loi n°96- 049 du 23 août 1996, les langues nationales du Mali sont : le bamanankan (bambara), le bomu (bobo), le bozo (bozo), le dTgTsT (dogon), le fulfulde (peul), le hasanya (maure), le mamara (miniyanka), le maninkakan (malinké) le soninke (sarakolé), le soKoy (songhoï), le syenara (sénoufo), le tamasayt (tamasheq), le xaasongaxanKo (khassonké).}}</ref>
**[[Tawellemmet language|Tawellemet]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*Chadic:
**[[Hausa language|Hausa]] in [[Niger]]
*Cushitic:
**[[Afar language|Afar]] in [[Ethiopia]]
**[[Oromo language|Oromo]] in Ethiopia and Kenya
**[[Somali language|Somali]] in [[Somalia]], Ethiopia, [[Kenya]], and [[Djibouti]] 
*Semitic:
**[[Amharic]] in Ethiopia
**[[Arabic]] in [[Algeria]], [[Chad]], [[Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Egypt]], [[Libya]], [[Mauritania]],<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mauritania/ CIA – The World Factbook].</ref> [[Morocco]], [[Somalia]],<ref name="Charter">According to article 7 of [http://www.chr.up.ac.za/hr_docs/countries/docs/charterfeb04.pdf ''The Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218004011/http://www.chr.up.ac.za/hr_docs/countries/docs/charterfeb04.pdf|date=18 December 2008}}: "The official languages of the Somali Republic shall be Somali (Maay and Maxaatiri) and Arabic. The second languages of the Transitional Federal Government shall be English and Italian".</ref> [[Sudan]], [[Tunisia]] and [[Zanzibar]] ([[Tanzania]])
***[[Hassaniya Arabic]] in [[Mali]]<ref name=":0" />
**[[Tigrinya language|Tigrinya]] in Ethiopia and [[Eritrea]]

;Austronesian
*[[Malagasy language|Malagasy]] in [[Madagascar]]

;Ngbandi creole
*[[Sango language|Sango]] in the [[Central African Republic]]

;French Creole
*[[Seychelles Creole]] in [[Seychelles]]

;Indo-European
*[[Afrikaans]] in [[South Africa]]
*[[English language|English]] in [[Ghana]], [[Gambia]], [[Uganda]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Cameroon]], [[Kenya]], [[South Africa]], [[Liberia]], [[Zambia]], [[Malawi]], [[Rwanda]], [[Namibia]], [[Seychelles]], [[Sudan]], [[Tanzania]], [[Eswatini]], [[Lesotho]], and [[Mauritius]].
*[[French language|French]] in [[Benin]], [[Burundi]], [[Cameroon]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Chad]], [[Comoros]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of Congo]], [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]], [[Ivory Coast|Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Djibouti]], [[Gabon]], [[Guinea]], [[Madagascar]], [[Rwanda]], [[Senegal]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Togo]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spencer |first=Erika Hope |title=Research Guides: France & French Collections at the Library of Congress: Sub-Saharan Africa |url=https://guides.loc.gov/french-collections/francophone-studies/sub-saharan-africa |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=guides.loc.gov |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] in [[Angola]], [[Mozambique]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Cape Verde]], [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Fehn |first=Anne-Maria |title=African Linguistics in Official Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Africa |date=2019 |work=A History of African Linguistics |pages=189–204 |editor-last=Wolff |editor-first=H. Ekkehard |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-african-linguistics/african-linguistics-in-official-portuguese-and-spanishspeaking-africa/9ED5EF68F7DE7E253FE57BE4AAF2AF0A |access-date=2024-03-28 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-41797-6}}</ref>
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]] in [[Equatorial Guinea]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=ABOUT EQUATORIAL GUINEA {{!}} Equatorial Guinea Embassy USA |url=https://www.egembassydc.com/about-equatorial-guinea |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=EG Embassy USA |language=en}}</ref>

;Niger-Congo
*[[Bambara language|Bambara]] in [[Mali]]<ref name=":0" />
*[[Bobo language|Bobo]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Bozo language|Bozo]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Chewa language|Chewa]] in [[Malawi]] and [[Zimbabwe]]
*[[Comorian language|Comorian]] in the [[Comoros]]
*[[Dogon languages|Dogon]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Fula language|Fula]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Kassonke language|Kassonke]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Kikongo language|Kongo]] in [[Angola]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Gabon]], and [[Republic of the Congo]]
*[[Kinyarwanda]] in [[Rwanda]]
*[[Kirundi]] in [[Burundi]]
*[[Maninka language|Maninke]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Minyanka language|Minyanka]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Senufo languages|Senufo]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Sesotho language|Sesotho]] in [[Lesotho]], [[South Africa]] and [[Zimbabwe]]
*[[Tswana language|Setswana]] in [[Botswana]] and South Africa
*[[Shona language|Shona]], [[Northern Ndebele language|Sindebele]] in [[Zimbabwe]]
*[[Sepedi]] in South Africa
*[[Soninke language|Soninke]] in Mali<ref name=":0" />
*[[Southern Ndebele language|Ndebele]] in South Africa<ref>[http://www.southafrica.info/about/people/language.htm "The languages of South Africa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304001836/http://www.southafrica.info/about/people/language.htm |date=4 March 2011 }}. ''southafrica.info''.</ref>
*[[Swahili language|Swahili]] in [[Tanzania]], [[Kenya]], [[Rwanda]] and [[Uganda]]
*[[Swazi language|Swati]] in [[Eswatini|Eswatini (Swaziland)]] and [[South Africa]]
*[[Xitsonga|Tsonga]] in South Africa
*[[Tshivenda|Venda]] in South Africa
*[[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] in South Africa
*[[Zulu language|Zulu]] in South Africa

;Nilo-Saharan
*[[Songhay languages|Songhay]] in [[Mali]]<ref name=":0" />

{| class="wikitable"
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!Language
!Family
!Official status per country
|-
|Afar
| rowspan="8" |Afroasiatic
|Ethiopia, Djibouti (national)
|-
|Amharic
|Ethiopia
|-
|Arabic
|Algeria, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan 
|-
|Berber
|Algeria, Morocco
|-
|Hausa
|Niger, Nigeria (national)
|-
|Oromo
|Ethiopia<ref>{{cite web |title=ETHIOPIA TO ADD 4 MORE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES TO FOSTER UNITY |url=http://venturesafrica.com/ethiopia-to-add-4-more-official-languages-to-foster-unity/ |website=Ventures Africa |date=4 March 2020 |publisher=Ventures |access-date=2 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ethiopia is adding four more official languages to Amharic as political instability mounts |url=https://www.nazret.com/2020/03/07/ethiopia-is-adding-four-more-official-languages-to-amharic-as-political-instability-mounts/ |website=Nazret |access-date=2 February 2021 |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817225007/https://www.nazret.com/2020/03/07/ethiopia-is-adding-four-more-official-languages-to-amharic-as-political-instability-mounts/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shaban |first1=Abdurahman |title=One to five: Ethiopia gets four new federal working languages |url=https://www.africanews.com/2020/03/04/one-to-five-ethiopia-gets-four-new-federal-working-languages// |agency=Africa News |access-date=10 February 2021 |archive-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215231030/https://www.africanews.com/2020/03/04/one-to-five-ethiopia-gets-four-new-federal-working-languages// }}</ref> 
|-
|Somali
|Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti (national)
|-
|Tigrinya
|Ethiopia, Eritrea (national)
|-
|Malagasy
|Austronesian
|Madagascar
|-
|Seychelles Creole
|French Creole
|Seychelles
|-
|Afrikaans
|Indo-European
|South Africa
|-
|Sango
|Ngbandi creole
|Central African Republic
|-
|Chewa
| rowspan="17" |Niger-Congo
|Malawi, Zimbabwe
|-
|Comorian
|Comoros
|-
|Kikongo
|Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
|-
|Kinyarwanda
|Rwanda
|-
|Kirundi
|Burundi
|-
|Ndebele
|South Africa
|-
|Sepedi
|South Africa
|-
|Sesotho
|Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe
|-
|Setswana
|Botswana, South Africa
|-
|Shona
|Zimbabwe
|-
|Sindebele
|Zimbabwe
|-
|Swahili
|Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
|-
|Swati
|Eswatini, South Africa
|-
|Tsonga
|Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
|-
|Venda
|South Africa, Zimbabwe
|-
|Xhosa
|South Africa
|-
|Zulu
|South Africa
|}