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    Languages Spoken in Africa Only 8 (of at least 1,000) are spoken by more than 10 million people most lack a written tradition Niger-Congo Language Family More than 95% of people in sub-saharan Africa speak languages in this family. 6% of the world's people speak an Austronesian language Javanese Indonesian (lingua franca!)

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    Languages Spoken in Africa Only 8 (of at least 1,000) are spoken by more than 10 million people most lack a written tradition Niger-Congo Language Family More than 95% of people in sub-saharan Africa speak languages in this family. 6% of the world's people speak an Austronesian language Javanese Indonesian (lingua franca!)

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    Languages Spoken in Africa Only 8 (of at least 1,000) are spoken by more than 10 million people most lack a written tradition Niger-Congo Language Family More than 95% of people in sub-saharan Africa speak languages in this family. 6% of the world's people speak an Austronesian language Javanese Indonesian (lingua franca!)

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    Key Issue 3:

    Where Are Other Language Families Distributed?

    Classification of Languages
    Indo-European Sino-Tibetan Afro-Asiatic Austronesian Dravidian Altaic Niger-Congo Japanese Other

    Distribution of Language Families: Sino-Tibetan Family


    China & Southeast Asia Sinitic Branch: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Min, & Hakka
    Structure of the Chinese language Script: ideograms

    Austro-Thai Branch Tibeto-Burman Branch

    Chinese Characters Over Time

    Other East & Southeast Asian Language Families


    Japanese Chinese culture diffused to Japan Script: 3 forms Korean Not written with ideograms Script: Hankul

    Afro-Asiatic Language Family


    North Africa & Southwestern Asia Arabic & Hebrew Bible & Quran

    Altaic Language Family


    Turkey & Mongolia Turkish most widely used Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    Uralic Language Family


    Estonia, Finland, Hungary Proto-Uralic First used 7,000 years ago by people living in the Ural Mountains

    African Language Families


    No one knows exactly how many languages are spoken in Africa Only 8 (of at least 1,000) are spoken by more than 10 million people Most lack a written tradition

    Languages Spoken in Africa

    Niger-Congo Language Family


    More than 95% of people in sub-Saharan Africa speak languages in this family, which includes 6 branches. Benue-Congo Branch: Swahili

    Nilo-Saharan Language Family


    North-central Africa 6 branches The total number of speakers of each individual language is extremely small

    Khoisan Language Family


    Southwest Africa Clicking sounds Hottentotnamed by the white settlers

    Nigeria: Conflict Among Speakers of Different Languages


    Nigeria has 493 distinct languages! Only 3 are widespread Groups living in different regions have often battled

    Languages in Nigeria

    Austronesian Language Family


    Mostly in Indonesia 6% of the worlds people speak an Austronesian language Javanese Indonesian (lingua franca!) Malay Madagascar (Malagasy)

    Language Families in Africa

    So
    Where are other language families distributed?

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