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possibly Afro-Asiatic: Ongota, Kujarge

possibly Nilo-Saharan: Shabo

possibly Niger-Congo: Laal, Mpre, and Jalaa.

possibly Khoisan: Hadza, Sandawe, KwadiKwadi is an extinct Khoisan language of Angola. Its SIL code is KWZ''. As of 1981, it was considered extinct. The last 3 speakers were fluent in Kwadi in 1971. Dialect Zorotua or Vasorontu See also language, Africa External link Extinct languages Khoisan, and OropomOropom (or Oworopom, Oyoropom, Oropoi) is an almost certainly extinct African language, once spoken in northeastern Uganda and northwestern Kenya between the Turkwel River, Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon, by the Oropom ethnic group. It is very lit.

In addition, Africa has a wide variety of sign languageA sign language is a language which uses gestures instead of sound to convey meaning combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, facial expressions and lip-patterns. Sign languages are usually developed in deaf communities,s, many of whose genetic classification has yet to be worked out.

Several whistled languageWhistled speech. Whistled language is telecommunication by whistling, with or without a whistle. These are not separate languages or even codes but rather realizations of the local language in whistled sounds. These differ according to whether the spokens are also attested in Africa for special purposes.

1 Non-African families

The above are families indigenous to Africa. Several African languages belong to non-African families: Malagasy is an AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, which is spoken on Madagascar. Austronesian ha language, and Afrikaans is Indo-EuropeanThe Indo-European languages include some 443 ( SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. Contemporary language, as is the lexifier of most African creoles.

2 Studying African Languages

In Europe there is a project going on building up a common curriculum in African Languages and Linguistics called EEQUALL (European Equivalences In African Languages And Linguistics). It will allow students to get credit points from different universities.

External link: EEQUALL (currently a bit outdated)
External link: African Languages at the K-12 Level Looks at how American schools are studying African languages.

3 See also

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