Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The African languages are currently divided into the following four language families Afro-Asiatic languages (Semitic, etc.) Niger-Congo languages (Bantu, etc.) Nilo-Saharan languages Khoisan languages see also: Polyglotta Africana, Joseph H. Greenberg The above are families indigenous to Africa. Two African languages belong to non-African families: Malagasy is an Austronesian language, and Afrikaans is Indo-European. More on African languages and language families : http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Africa Studying African Languages In Europe there is a project going on building up a common curriculum in African Languages and Linguistics called EEQUALL (European Equivalences In African Languages And Linguistics). It will allow students to get credit points from different universities. http://www.eequall.info (currently a bit outdated) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.