Languages of Africa
Afroasiatic Languages:
Coptic
Ethio-Semitic Languages:
Amharic
Tigrinya
Berber Languages:
Berber
Tamasheq [Touareg]
Touareg [Tamasheq]
Cushitic Languages:
Agaw
Beja
Galla [Oromo]
Oromo [Galla]
Somali
Omotic Languages:
Omotic
Semitic Languages:
Arabic
Aramaic [Syriac]
Ivrit [Modern Hebrew]
Maltese
Modern Hebrew [Ivrit]
Syriac [Aramaic]
Chadic Languages:
Hausa
Khoisan Languages:
North Khoisan
Central Khoisan
South Khoisan
Hadza
Sandawe
Niger-Kongo Languages:
Adamawa-Ubangi Languages:
Zande
Gur Languages and Dogon:
Dogon
More
Kordofanian Languages:
Kordofanian
Kwa- and Kru Languages:
Akan [Twi]
Dyula
Ewe [Gbe]
Gã
Gbe [Ewe]
Kru Languages
Twi [Akan]
Mande Languages:
Bambara
Manding
Mende
Susu
West Atlantic Languages:
Ful
Temne
Wolof
Benue-Kongo Languages:
Defoid, Igboid and others:
Igbo
Jukun
Yoruba
Bantu Languages:
Bemba
Chewa
Fang
Ganda
Herero
Kikuyu
Kimbundu
Kinyarwanda
Kituba
Kongo
Kwanyama
Lingala
Lozi
Lwena
Makua
Nyanja
Rundi
Sango
Shona
Sotho
Sukuma
Swahili
Tswana
Umbundu
Xhosa
Yao
Zulu
Nilo-Saharan Languages:
Fur
Maba
Songhai
Saharan Languages:
Kanuri
Saharan
Chari-Nil Languages:
Dinka
Nilotic
Nubian
Nuer
Central Sudanic
Austronesian:
Malagasy
Indo-European:
Afrikaans
(Other Colonial and Creol languages unassigned)
[Name variants in square brackets]

Copyright of the map: Jost Gippert, Frankfurt a/M 1993-2010.
A previous version of the map was published in printed form in H. Glück (ed.), Metzler Lexikon Sprache, Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 1993, and later editions.