| African Voices: An Introduction to the Languages and Linguistics of Africa | , , , , , , , , and in , the only multilingual country with widespread official status for its indigenous languages, in addition to Afrikaans and English |
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| An Introduction to African Languages | Besides the former colonial languages of Afrikaans, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, only a few languages are official at the national level |
| The Languages of West Africa | But English, French and Portuguese are important language : 130, 115 and 17 million speak secondary in general |
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| Dihoff editor , Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Vol | Elugbe, Ben 1998 "Cross-border and major languages of Africa |
Final report of the Intergovernmental Conference on Language Policies in Africa.
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| 1 , Dordrecht: Foris, 3-21 | com's : A listing of African languages and language families |
"Thoughts when drawing a map of tone languages.