Most Widely-Spoken Languages In Africa (With A Map) - Statistics

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Rank	Language	City	Speakers	% Correct
1	Arabic	Cairo	150,000,000	99%
2	French	Kinshasa	120,000,000	93%
25	English	Johannesburg	6,500,000	88%
21	Afrikaans	Cape Town	7,200,000	87%
10	Somali	Mogadishu	16,600,000	87%
12	Swahili	Nairobi	15,000,000	87%
15	Zulu	Johannesburg	10,400,000	83%
8	Amharic	Addis Ababa	21,800,000	81%
11	Berber	Fes	16,000,000	81%
13	Portuguese	Luanda	13,700,000	80%
5	Igbo	Lagos	27,000,000	76%
9	Malagasy	Antananarivo	18,000,000	76%
19	Xhosa	Cape Town	7,600,000	74%
4	Yoruba	Lagos	28,000,000	73%
38	Spanish	Malabo	1,100,000	68%
29	Sotho	Maseru	5,600,000	67%
3	Hausa	Lagos	34,000,000	66%
16	Kinyarwanda	Kigali	9,800,000	62%
18	Kirundi	Bujumbura	8,800,000	58%
6	Oromo	Addis Ababa	26,000,000	58%
23	Tigrinya	Asmara	7,000,000	53%
28	Tswana	Pretoria	5,800,000	51%
32	Wolof	Dakar	5,454,000	46%
7	Fula	Conakry	25,000,000	43%
34	Northern Sotho	Polokwane	4,600,000	41%
21	Shona	Harare	7,200,000	41%
38	Southern Ndebele	Bulawayo	1,100,000	41%
38	Mauritian Creole	Port Louis	1,100,000	40%
29	Kongo	Kinshasa	5,600,000	37%
31	Lingala	Kinshasa	5,500,000	31%
14	Akan	Accra	11,000,000	28%
33	Tsonga	Maputo	5,000,000	28%
37	Venda	Polokwane	1,300,000	28%
17	Chewa	Lusaka	9,700,000	26%
36	Luganda	Kampala	4,100,000	26%
19	Mossi	Ouagadougou	7,600,000	19%
24	Gikuyu	Nyeri	6,600,000	15%
35	Luo	Nairobi	4,200,000	13%
26	Luba-Kasai	Kananga	6,300,000	12%
27	Umbundu	Benguela	6,000,000	11%
41	Dangme	Accra	1,020,000	2%

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