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Which languages have the most native speakers in Africa? To make it easier, I have added the main country by population for each language.
according to Wikipedia
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Last updated: January 24, 2017
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Native Speakers
Main Country
Language
150 mil
Egypt
Arabic
36 mil
Ethiopia
Amharic
35 mil
Nigeria
Hausa
30 mil
Morocco
Berber
26 mil
Ethiopia
Oromo
25 mil
Nigeria
Igbo
24 mil
Senegal
Fula
20 mil
Madagascar
Malagasy
15 mil
Somalia
Somali
15 mil
Tanzania
Swahili
skukka
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Level 59
Jan 24, 2017
What about Amharic? There should be well over 30 million speakers.

Well, cool quiz anyway!

relessness
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Level 47
Jan 24, 2017
Added!
scambigol
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Level 76
Jan 24, 2017
Maybe you should specify you are excluding European languages? The link sends to the wikipedia page about European languages
relessness
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Level 47
Apr 20, 2017
I'm not excluding European langauges, there aren't enough native speakers of them.
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jan 24, 2017
Surely more than 15 million of the 190 million Anglophones in Africa are natives?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Feb 16, 2017
No. About 10% of the population of South Africa speaks English as a first language. Beyond that, there aren't many.
Cheesedoodle11
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Level 49
May 14, 2021
Tribal languages are most africans first language, and european is just a ridge language so people of other tribes can communicate easily
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