Top Spoken Languages: Africa
Africa's top 10 languages by native speakers. Type as many as you can before time runs out.
Just start typing — a language is added the moment it's recognised, no need to press Enter. Ranked by native speakers.
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About Top Spoken Languages: Africa
Arabic leads Africa's list too, spread across Egypt, Sudan and the whole of North Africa. Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo follow — all three concentrated in and around Nigeria, the continent's most populous country by a wide margin.
Swahili is the list's odd entry: as a native language it ranks near the bottom here, but as a second language it is understood by well over a hundred million people across East and Central Africa, arguably the continent's most useful lingua franca.
Portuguese closes out the list on the strength of Angola alone, where it has become a first language for a fast-growing share of the urban population.
Scoring
Your score is how many of the 10 languages you name correctly before the 3 minutes run out. Ranked by native speakers. Duplicates are ignored rather than counted twice, and stopping early locks in whatever you have found so far.
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