African language (original) (raw)

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

see also: Polyglotta Africana, Joseph H. Greenberg

The above are families indigenous to Africa. Two African languages belong to non-African families: Malagasy is an Austronesian language, and Afrikaans is Indo-European.

More on African languages and language families :
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Studying African LanguagesIn 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.

http://www.eequall.info (currently a bit outdated)