It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family Coptic an Afro-Asiatic language, written in the Greek alphabet but descended from ancient Egyptian. There are extensive differences between dialects Chewa the language of this people Chichewa the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi.

Adamawa a small group of languages of W Africa, spoken chiefly in E Nigeria, N Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and N Democratic Republic of Congo, forming a branch of the Niger-Congo family Afrikaans one of the official languages of the Republic of South Africa, closely related to Dutch Akan the language of this people, having two chief dialects, Fanti and Twi, and belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family Amharic the official language of Ethiopia, belonging to the SE Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family Bambara the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family Barotse the language spoken by this people Lozi Bashkir the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family Bemba the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family Berber the language of this people, forming a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages.

African pidgin language