|
Speakers
|
Language
|
|
295,000,000
|
Arabic
|
|
34,000,000
|
Hausa
|
|
28,000,000
|
Yoruba
|
|
25,000,000
|
Amharic
|
|
24,000,000
|
Fula
|
|
24,000,000
|
Oromo
|
|
24,000,000
|
Igbo
|
|
18,000,000
|
Malagasy
|
|
|
Speakers
|
Language
|
|
15,000,000
|
Somali
|
|
12,000,000
|
Chewa
|
|
11,000,000
|
Akan
|
|
10,400,000
|
Zulu
|
|
9,800,000
|
Kinyarwanda
|
|
8,800,000
|
Kirundi
|
|
8,300,000
|
Shona
|
|
And there are 38 million native Oromo speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_people).
There are only 20 million native Amhara speakers
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharas). Because Amharic is the enforced national language in Ethiopia, many other ethnic groups speak Amharic in Ethiopia as a second language but only the Amhara people speak it as a first language.
Also, Arabic did not originate even partially in Africa. It originated in West Asia.