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Top African Languages on a Map

Can you name the African languages with the most native speakers with the help of a map?
Includes languages not native to Africa
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Quiz by Jiaozira
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Last updated: January 18, 2022
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First submittedJuly 28, 2018
Times taken7,263
Average score45.9%
Rating4.63
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Language
150 m
Arabic
120 m
French
56 m
Berber
34 m
Hausa
28 m
Yoruba
26 m
Oromo
25 m
Fulani
21 m
Amharic
18 m
Igbo
18 m
Malagasy
16 m
Somali
15 m
Swahili
14 m
Shona
13 m
Portuguese
11 m
Akan
10 m
Zulu
9.8 m
Kinyarwanda
9.7 m
Chewa
8.8 m
Kirundi
Pop
Language
7.6 m
Mossi
7.6 m
Xhosa
7.2 m
Afrikaans
7.0 m
Tigrinya
6.6 m
Gikuyu
6.5 m
English
6.3 m
Luba-Kasai
6.0 m
Umbundu
5.8 m
Tswana
5.6 m
Kongo
5.6 m
Sesotho
5.5 m
Lingala
4.6 m
Northern Sotho
4.2 m
Luo
4.1 m
Luganda
4.1 m
Spanish
1.1 m
Mauritian Creole
1.0 m
Ndebele
WolfCam
+6
Level 65
Jul 29, 2018
This one is definitely harder than the other two. Simply because there are very few languages actually named for countries. Good Quiz!
Tramp
+3
Level 74
Jul 29, 2018
Tough quiz. I don't believe that there are only 6.5M native English speakers in Africa though. I'm aware that many (most?) speak it as a second language, but it still seems incredibly low to me.
randomdude
+2
Level 69
Mar 24, 2020
Sick quiz, but could you accept Kikongo for Kongo?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Mar 24, 2020
Cheers! That will work now.
NeilV
+2
Level 51
Jul 8, 2020
Only missed Gikuyu , Tigrinya, Tshiluba, Umbundu, and Akan.
beccapikle
+3
Level 40
Sep 8, 2020
What about Dioula/Bambara and Wolof?
Jiaozira
+3
Level 69
Sep 8, 2020
Wolof is certain to be added when I update this quiz to the standards of the others. I'm not sure about the others.
UltraEl1te
+2
Level 37
Sep 10, 2020
This one is Much Harder than Asian and European, Especially Eastern and Southern Africa for me.
TheRealGrantma
+1
Level 56
Sep 22, 2020
I sorta made my own version here, please tell me if you would like me to delete it.
Jiaozira
+7
Level 69
Sep 22, 2020
No don't delete it! I don't own the right to this idea, and anyone can make what they like :)
TheRealGrantma
+6
Level 56
Sep 23, 2020
Thank you! :D
Jiaozira
+4
Level 69
Sep 23, 2020
Don't mention it. I liked the quiz!
PeregrineFalcon
+2
Level 75
Mar 11, 2021
Accept Fula for Fulani?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Mar 11, 2021
Sure, that will work now :)
Nathaniel
+2
Level 69
May 12, 2021
Nominated! Great quiz!
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
May 12, 2021
Thank you!
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Aug 22, 2021
(Maybe) accept Ashanti and/or Fante for Akan? I know the Ashanti and Fante people are technically subgroups of the Akan, but since they are the largest/most recognizable groups I think it might make sense to accept those as type-ins (though I'm not sure, so if you have a reason for not accepting those I'd be interested in hearing it).
Jiaozira
+4
Level 69
Aug 22, 2021
Yes those will be accepted now! It does make sense, since those are different standardized versions of Akan. I've been wanting to do a larger overhaul of this quiz for almost a year now but fow now I am touching things up when they are requested :)
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Nov 13, 2021
Thanks for the spotlight!
BigFloppa
+4
Level 63
Nov 13, 2021
swazi has 2.3 million native speakers.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Nov 13, 2021
Yes, will fix soon. In my source there were a few languages which showed up, yet didn't have a number of speakers attached to them (i.e. Swazi, Ga, Afar) so they will need to be added.
Jelsiwifish
+2
Level 22
Nov 27, 2021
nominated! :D
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Nov 27, 2021
Thank you! :)
AvestaFeynman
+3
Level 23
Jan 16, 2022
Tshiluba is better known as Luba-Kasai. Please accept Luba-Kasai!
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Jan 16, 2022
Okay, I have changed the name as well.
AvestaFeynman
+4
Level 23
Jan 16, 2022
Such a shame German isn't on the list - IIRC, the GDR had funded German education in socialist states like Angola, and was one of the leading Western states against Apartheid and racism.
Jiaozira
+4
Level 69
Jan 16, 2022
According to Wikipedia 0.9% of Namibia, including 35% of white Namibians, speaks German. I assume the first figure is for L1 and the second for L1 and L2 speakers but I'm not completely sure. The list is already incomplete, so German would need a lot of traction to appear on the quiz!
Eutychus
+5
Level 88
Jan 17, 2022
Still no Wolof?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Jan 17, 2022
No, I need to update the quiz but I've been working on some other projects at the moment.
Damangio
+2
Level 65
Jan 17, 2022
Jiaozira strikes again!
Damangio
+2
Level 65
Jan 18, 2022
Please accept "Ganda" for Luganda.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
Jan 18, 2022
That will now work, thanks for playing!
MfundoNkambule
+2
Level 35
Mar 25, 2022
Siswati(Swazi) has 2.1m speakers,why didn't you include it?
MfundoNkambule
+2
Level 35
Mar 25, 2022
Siswati(Swazi) has 2.1m speakers,why didn't you include it?
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 56
Apr 3, 2022
Accept Sotho for Northern Sotho please.
Diptodeep
+2
Level 41
May 29, 2022
Northern and southern sotho are different languages albeit somewhat similar
TheNatureThread
+2
Level 65
May 7, 2022
Amazing quiz! I've been doing a JetPunk language project the last few months so I appreciate these quizzes a lot more even though i already appreciated them infinitely . I found a lot more 1 Million speaker languages myself, and I also tried to use your source but it seemed to be very faulty. I also had a lot of trouble finding sources but the pages of the languages themselves were pretty reasonable :)
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
May 9, 2022
Originally the source was even worse since not all the languages even had the number of speakers. I believe it has been updated by someone with a (reasonably priced) Ethnologue subscription but when I update the quiz I may have to exclude all languages with under 5 million speakers. It's crazy how some languages with 2-3 million speakers can have so little information, it's like a mystery!
Speed4TheNeed
+2
Level 84
May 7, 2022
Great quiz...even though I did rather poorly on it lol. Nom'd!
Jiaozira
+1
Level 69
May 9, 2022
Thank you!
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Jul 23, 2022
Really fun quiz, thanks! I have done it again and again and learned the ones I didn't know. You have improved my knowledge!
belor
+1
Level 55
Jul 23, 2022
Unsure if anyone has mentioned this yet, though maybe accept Morisyen / Morisien for Mauritian Creole?

I tried Morisyen, after it didn't work I didn't think to try Mauritian Creole, though I guess that bit is on me^^'

GeoRockstar14
+1
Level 84
Jul 23, 2022
Of course, English was one of the few random languages I missed:)
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