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Africa: Most Spoken (Native) Language

Name the language with the highest number of native speakers for each country below. Data is from Ethnologue.
Varieties of Arabic, Fulfulde (Fula), Comorian, and Ovambo are counted together according to their respective macrolanguages.
However, creoles are counted separately from their base language, as are the Bantala languages.
Fulfulde is assumed to have at least 10,000,000 native speakers in Cameroon
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Algeria
Arabic (Algerian)
Angola
Portuguese
Benin
Fon
Botswana
Setswana
Burkina Faso
Mossi
Burundi
Kirundi
Cameroon
Fulfulde
Cape Verde
Kabuverdianu
Central African Republic
Sango
Chad
Arabic (Chadian)
Comoros
Comorian
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tshiluba
Djibouti
Somali
Egypt
Arabic (Egyptian)
Equatorial Guinea
Fang
Eritrea
Tigrinya
Eswatini
Swati
Ethiopia
Oromo
Gabon
Fang
Gambia
Mandinka
Ghana
Akan
Guinea
Fulfulde (Pular)
Guinea-Bissau
Balanta-Kentohe
Ivory Coast
Baoulé
Kenya
Kikuyu
Lesotho
Sesotho
Liberia
Kpelle
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Libya
Arabic (Libya)
Madagascar
Malagasy
Malawi
Chichewa
Mali
Bambara
Mauritania
Arabic (Hassaniya)
Mauritius
Morisien
Morocco
Arabic (Moroccan)
Mozambique
Makhuwa
Namibia
Ovambo (Kwanyama & Ndonga)
Niger
Hausa
Nigeria
Yoruba
Republic of the Congo
Kituba
Rwanda
Kinyarwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Portuguese
Senegal
Wolof
Seychelles
Seychellois
Sierra Leone
Mende
Somalia
Somali
South Africa
Zulu
South Sudan
Dinka
Sudan
Arabic (Sudanese)
Togo
Ewe
Tunisia
Arabic (Tunisian)
Tanzania
Swahili
Uganda
Luganda
Zambia
Bemba
Zimbabwe
Shona
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Level 90
Mar 13, 2021
Did I misunderstand? How can Portuguese be a "native" language.
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Level 56
Mar 15, 2021
Even though Portuguese language didn't originate from Africa, it (according to Ethnologue, anyway) has a proportionally large number of L1 speakers in Angola and São Tomé & Príncipe. By "most spoken native language", I mean the language with the highest numbers of speakers who speak that language as their first language. If someone finds data that contradicts this, I can update my quiz accordingly.