ARABIC: THE MOST SPOKEN INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTINENT
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Date
2021
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Al-Nahda InternationalJournal Volume VI. No.2 December, 2024 = Rajab. 1446AH
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Mohammad Kamel Ahmad, PhD
Kwara State University, Malete, Ilorin, Nigeria
mohammadkamelahmad65@gmail.com
The number of languages natively spoken in the fifty four (54) African states is
variously estimated at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over
3000.2) These languages belong to many distinct language families. Of all these
languages, five (5) are the most used by their speakers in terms of population
within the African continent. The five are Arabic, Swahili, Hausa, Oromo, and
Yoruba. Each of these languages is spoken by multiple African countries by small
or large population. They are the leading African languages attested to by scholars
and researchers and confirmed by different and rigorous studies conducted thus
far.