African language diversity thread

[Raptor]

I thought it would be great if we had a thread devoted to African languages. Africa is blessed with linguistic diversity. Post african song with the name of the language and the region in Africa where that language is spoken



Linga - Lingala (Ngala) is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo, as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic.

 

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Swahili - Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 

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@Akan/ igbo

 

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Wolof.

 

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Igbo - Igbo (Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ̀ Ìgbò) is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in Nigeria. There are between 18-25 million Igbo speakers living primarily in southeastern Nigeria in an area known as Igboland. Igbo is a national language of Nigeria and is also recognised in Equatorial Guinea.

 

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Yoruba - Yoruba is one of the four official languages of Nigeria and is a member of the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. It is spoken by about 22 million people in southwest Nigeria, Benin, Togo, the UK, Brazil and the USA.

 

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Hausa -
Hausa is a Chadic language with about 39 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger, and also in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Germany, Ghana, Sudan and Togo

 

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The Akan languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo languages. There are about 7 million Akan speakers in eastern Ivory Coast, south-central Ghana, and central Togo.

 

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Amharic

Amharic (/æmˈhærɪk/ or /ɑːmˈhɑrɪk/; Amharic: አማርኛ Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] ( listen)) is an Afro Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is the second-most spoken Afroasiatic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Ethio-blues known as Tizita

 

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Tigrinya - The Tigrinya language (or Tigrinya, Tigrai) is a language derived from the Geez (ge'ez), like the Amharic language. It's spoken in the south of Eritrea (it's the main language of the country) and in the north of Ethiopia.

 

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1. Shona /ˈʃoʊnə/, or chiShona, is aBantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru,Karanga, Manyika and Korekore, sometimes also Ndau.
   
   
   
   

 

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Chewa, also known as Nyanja, is a language of the Bantu language family. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is also known as Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinyanja in Zambia), and locally Nyasa in Mozambique.

 

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Cool

 

[Cuban Pete]

Yoruba - Yoruba is one of the four official languages of Nigeria and is a member of the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. It is spoken by about 22 million people in southwest Nigeria, Benin, Togo, the UK, Brazil and the USA.

gotta learn it for religious purposes, does any breh know a good website where I could pick it up Idk if rosetta stone has Yoruba never seen it on their site

 

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gotta learn it for religious purposes, does any breh know a good website where I could pick it up Idk if rosetta stone has Yoruba never seen it on their site

what religion is this?