ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
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many immigrants have come to West Africa
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people are able to speak more than one language
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each ethnic group speaks a separate language
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each religious denomination speaks a separate language
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is Africa so linguistically diverse? Humans have populated Africa for more than 5 million years. One of the reasons for the continent’s rich linguistic diversity is simply down to time – people in Africa have had more time to develop languages than peoples elsewhere in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -List of official, national and spoken languages of Africa. Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages. gathering appoximately 140 languages with some eleven millions speakers scattered in Central and Eastern Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -"There’s just been a lot of time for cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, genetic diversity to accumulate in Africa, ” Tishkoff says. There could also be environmental and political explanations, according to University of Chicago evolutionary linguist Salikoko Mufwene.
Detailed explanation-4: -Except for Arabic and Hausa, the major languages are from the Niger-Congo family: Yoruba, Igbo, Fulfulde/Pulaar, Akan, and Wolof. However, the remaining language groups are well-represented as the continental sub-region is home to native speakers of over 500 languages.