Africa is home to an astonishingly diverse array of languages, each reflecting the continent's rich cultural and historical fabric. At first glance, the map of Africa’s many languages may seem ...

There are an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 languages spoken across Africa, mainly falling into the Afro-Asiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan language families. The map below shows 50 of the ...

Google Maps has added 39 new languages making it more accessible to many people across the world. Find out which 3 African languages have been added.

Elleke Boehmer Khoekhoegowab and other languages of northern South Africa, southern Namibia and Botswana, still spoken today, share complicated histories with ǀxam.

More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.