The Origins of African Languages

Joshua Rudder of the linguistic channel NativLang has created a highly informative animation that looks at the wide variety of languages spoken within the continent of Africa. To make understanding a bit easier, Rudder goes back to the origins of each language to find the common family from which they come.

At first, the map of Africa’s many languages seems complicated. However, …we’ll learn how linguists classified them into just five families.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

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