African Community Languages and Their Use in Education
Les langues communautaires africaines et leur utilisation dans l’enseignement
The list of 159 community languages produced by a UNESCO survey in 1985 was revised on a map, with an accompanying paper by Nigerian linguist Ayo Bamgbose, in 2004. The languages and accompanying data on the map have been reformatted and wikified in the table below.
Notes
The asterisk (*) indicates that the language is a
community language [in more than one country].
The figure which follows it indicates the number
of countries where it is considered as a community
language.
The numbers 1, 2 and 3 indicates first, second
and third levels of education respectively. The
letters M, S and P indicate respectively that a
language is used as medium of instruction, as a
subject of instruction only or in a pilot project
Notes
L’astérisque (*) indique que la langue est une langue
communautaire dans plus d’un pays. Le chiffre qui
suit l’astérisque indique le nombre de pays où cette
langue est une langue communautaire.
Les chiffres 1, 2, 3 indiquent respectivement les
niveaux primaire, secondaire et supérieur de
l’éducation. Les lettres M, S et P indiquent respec-
tivement que la langue est utilisée comme moyen
d’enseignement, comme matière seulement ou dans
le cadre d’un projet pilote
PanAfrLoc Notes:
- North Africa was outside the scope of this survey.
- Djibouti, Eritrea, and Reunion are not included.
- Bari, Dinka, Moru, Nuer, & Zande would be mapped to South Sudan which was not an independent country at the time of this revision.
- The English version of the notes that came with the map (featured here near the top of the page, above) was missing an important phrase, which was added in [brackets] with reference to the French version.