Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages. However, some accounts report around 600 languages. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and 169 Niger–Congo languages.This latter group comprises one Senegambian language (), 28 Adamawa languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of which are …

The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language).The languages have around 6.2 million speakers. The group is generally …

Etymology. The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root *wes reduced from *wes-pero 'evening, night', …

Hausa (/ ˈ h aʊ s ə /; Harshen / Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشَن هَوْسَ) is a Nigerian language spoken by the Hausa people in Chad, and mainly within the northern half of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and the southern half of Niger, with significant minorities in Sudan and Ivory Coast.. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language ...

Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 (21 years ago) () as an English-language encyclopedia.Other editions were soon created: the German and Catalan editions were created around 16 March, the French edition was created on 23 March, and the …

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries. Total population as of 2020 is estimated at more than 1.3 billion, with a growth rate of more than 2.5% p.a. The total fertility rate (births per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as …

Language isolates are languages that cannot be classified into larger language families. Korean and Basque are two of the most commonly cited examples, although Korean is actually a member of the Koreanic language family.Others include Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, and Haida in the Americas. The number of language isolates is unknown. A language isolate is unrelated to any …

Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremənkhēmi) is a language family of closely related dialects descended from the Ancient Egyptian language and historically spoken by the Copts of Egypt, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim conquest of Egypt and was ...

Although Suret, like all Semitic languages, is not a tonal language, a tonal stress is made on a plural possessive suffix -éh (i.e. dīyéh; "their") in the final vowel to tonally differentiate it from an unstressed -eh (i.e. dīyeh; "his"), which is a masculine singular possessive, with a standard stress pattern falling on the penult.

En génétique humaine, l'haplogroupe R1b (R-M343) est un haplogroupe du chromosome Y.. Cet haplogroupe se compose de trois principaux sous-clades, R1b-M269, très fréquent en Europe de l'Ouest, R1b-V88 qui se retrouve surtout dans certaines parties de l'Afrique subsaharienne et au Moyen-Orient et R1b-M73 qui se rencontre en Asie du Sud et de l'Ouest. . Ces sous-groupes …