Living African Languages — Regional Guide

A regional guide to currently published living-language encyclopedia profiles across Africa. This is a geographical navigation aid, not a claim that all languages listed are genealogically related or spoken only in one country.

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East Africa and the Horn

• Swahili
• Somali
• Oromo
• Afar
• Amharic
• Tigrinya
• Aari
• Dinka
• Nuer

West and Central Africa

• Yoruba
• Igbo
• Hausa
• Akan
• Ga
• Ewe
• Wolof
• Bambara
• Fula
• Lingala

Southern Africa and Great Lakes

• Zulu
• Xhosa
• Shona
• Sesotho
• Setswana
• Bemba
• Luganda
• Kinyarwanda
• Kirundi

Indian Ocean

• Malagasy