Official and Regional Languages of Africa on a Map

Thanks for playing! I'm glad to see someone else who is now familiar with these languages. This quiz was intimidating to make after the Asian languages quiz, which was by far my biggest project on Jetpunk, but I'm glad I took the plunge and made it :D

I made the changed by the way. These languages really are quite interesting and special, so I could see a blog entry featuring a number of them as something that people would enjoy. I already have graphics in the form of the flag designs after all.

I'm glad I could deliver! Africa was definitely the perfect next step in the series :)

I'm glad you're enjoying them! Thanks for playing.

Thanks for your support Damangio!

Language status is certainly key, it makes for a fun mix between big languages and small ones. However, certain countries have either very limited recognition of their minority languages, or they recognise virtually every language spoken in the country (and therefore I didn't consider them). There is more subjectivity in this quiz, as I didn't look at any legal documents for example and sources like Wikipedia are unfortunately hardly trustworthy.

As for Kenya, they only recognise Swahili, to the best of my knowledge.

Thank you very much, JWatson :D

Truth be told, while there are some languages like Bambara and Chewa which are rarely known for holding the seats of power in their respective countries, there are still a great number of languages you could only get if you were very familiar with one of these countries (like the Senegalese languages).

I love these grandious quizzes based on official-ish status (rather than size for example), because when I'm making them I think to myself there's simply no way anyone is guessing the Noon language, hahaha.

Happy I could deliver :)

Fixed, thanks for letting me know! It's possible there are a couple smaller borders I didn't see that are still missing.

That sounds wonderful, music is a great way to discover a new language in my opinion :D

Broadly I agree with the Quizmaster and Stewart's decision to limit nominations to more concise quizzes, but it is a shame with a quiz like this which is a continuation of a series.

In any case, when I get around to Oceania and the Americas both quizzes should be nominateable due to low answer counts. Thanks for playing :)

It is an interesting language I had no idea about until today, in fact it is neat to learn that people live on these islands. However the language is not recognised by Eritrea in any way.

Admittedly I don't have a great answer as to the exact meaning of what a Creole language is. The best description I could find was that it arises as a pidgin language which becomes adopted by a population, usually accompanied by grammatical simplification. In this case, I believe Afrikaans is only partially Creolised. All sources I could find on Afrikaans went back and forth on whether or not it was a Creole language or merely a daughter language of Dutch which developed parallel to Modern Dutch. As far as I could tell, the simplification of grammar was the only unified trait of Creole languages, as they arise from a very diverse set of parent languages, although the irregularity factor has also been used to explain why English isn't a Creole language.

It's a very interesting topic and I hope I am not speaking incorrectly in my answer, as I am still a layman in these topics.

Thank you for your type-in suggestions, I added them to the quiz.

I certainly want to be lenient where I can, I tried to get all the common names I could find on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia isn't the greatest source for alternative names in particular.

The grey areas are where unrecognised languages are spoken (there are many!)

Thanks for playing! This was a highly demanded quiz, relatively speaking, and I am happy I could finally deliver :)

Kabuverdianu will now work, I had to require the specific place-names for the Creole languages, since there are so many languages called by a version of the word 'Creole'. This was a difficult decision, since colloquially everyone will call it 'Krio', not Sierra Leonean Creole.

So far I have North America down and South America in the works (slowly). My biggest problem with the Americas is the inconsistent recognition of Indigenous languages, some territories recognise no languages at all and others recognise virtually every language. This is a problem with every continent but it's most pronounced in the Americas. Regardless, it's a fun series and I can't wait to finish it off soon!

Fixed!