Guys, Africa is a huge continent.
I mean, really huge—more so than you might expect. We’re talking a continent as big as the U.S., India, China and most of Europe combined.
For us language enthusiasts, that means more languages than you can count. Africa is a veritable buffet for the language learner. In fact, it’s estimated that there may be over 3,000 languages spoken in Africa!
Not only is Africa the second most populous continent in the world with over one billion people, but it is also home to the highest linguistic diversity in the world, with over 1500 different languages.
The principle languages on the continent include Arabic, French and English. Arabic was ranked the 5th most spoken language in the world by research group Ethnologue, with over 240 million speakers worldwide. In Africa, there are more than 100 million speakers, with Egypt accounting for more than 54 million. It is also the most widespread official language on the continent, incluing in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
English reached the 3rd spot as the most spoken language in the world, with over 330 million speakers. It is known as the ‘lingua franca’ of the world, widely used for international business, and is the language of the scientific and medical fields, which use English as a basis for much of the terminology. In Africa, majority of native English speakers are from South Africa, and the language is most spoken in Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
African languages form part of four language groups, namely Afro-Asiatic covering Northern Africa, Central Sahara and the Horn of Africa, Nilo-Saharian covering Central and Eastern Africa, Niger-Congo covering Central, Southern and Eastern Africa and Khoisan, covering the western part of Southern Africa.
English and French are both widely spoken throughout the continent, though the number of native speakers is probably less that of Amharic. For example, English has around 5 million native speakers in South Africa and probably less than 10 million continent-wide.
Below are top 11 African languages to know when doing business on the continent or enjoying tourist destinations and experiencing diverse cultures on the continent:
1 SWAHILI
Swahili is the most spoken language in Africa, with over 100 million speakers. It is a Bantu language believed to have originated from other languages, mainly Arabic, due to historical interactions between Arabs from the Middle East and East Africans. Swahili is Tanzania’s official language, as well as the medium of instruction in all schools. It is also Kenya’s official language as well as Uganda. Other Swahili speaking nations include Rwanda, Burundi, southern Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan northern Mozambique and the Comoros Islands. To greet in Swahili, one says, “Jambo”, or “Habari” when greeting an elder.
Second on our list is Swahili, known as Kiswahili in the language itself.
Swahili is a Bantu language widely spoken in the African Great Lakes region, which comprises of a huge swath of Central, Southern and East African. There’s also a huge number of Swahili speakers in countries adjacent to the Great Lakes region.
With Swahili under your belt, you’ll be able to visit gorgeous countries like Tanzania and Kenya, where Swahili is an official language. Swahili will also help you get around parts of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While it’s natively spoken by 15 million people, there are more than 150 million speakers total, and it’s a common second language throughout this region!
Swahili is quite appealing to many language learners due to the fact that it’s widely spoken and for its history. Kiswahili (the name of the language in Swahili) means “coastal language,” and it’s a trade language that was created to facilitate communications between a number of Southern and Eastern Africa’s wide variety of ethnic groups.
It’s also not too hard for English speakers to learn—unlike many African languages, Swahili doesn’t use tones and, unlike Arabic and Amharic, it uses the Latin alphabet. If you do know some Arabic then you have a good head start, as there are tons of Arabic loanwords in Swahili.
What’s more, I guarantee you already know a handful of Swahili words. Why? The writers of Disney’s “The Lion King” had a bit of a love affair with Swahili. Hakuna Matata? That’s Swahili for “no worries!” Simba? Swahili for “lion!”
How to Learn Swahili
If you want to get into the basics of Swahili, try BBC’s guide to pick up some vocabulary and greetings. And here’s a fun song to practice those greetings!
2 AMHARIC
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and is the second most spoken language in the country after Oromo, with over 21 million speakers. It is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic, and is also the language of over 2 million Ethiopians living outside of the country. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating from the Middle East. Amharic, along with Arabic, Hebrew and Tigrinya, are the most spoken Semitic languages in the world by way of native speakers. It is written in the Ge’ez or Ethiopic script, with over 30 different characters. To say hello in Amharic, one says, “Salam”.
Amharic is a rich and ancient Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
It’s related to Arabic and Hebrew, and with 22 million native speakers it’s the second most widely spoken Semitic language after Arabic.
Amharic is gorgeous when spoken, and it’s even more stunning when written in its unique script. It uses an alphasyllabary called fidel—basically, each “letter” represents a consonant/vowel combination, but the forms of the consonants and vowels change depending on the combinations.
Learning to write fidel might take a little longer than learning the Arabic script, but it’s still well within reach of the average learner. Try taking advantage of tools like SRS (Spaced Repetition Systems) to efficiently memorize each letter and its various combinations.
Amharic is also host to a growing body of Ethiopian literature. Poetry and novels are both popular, and learning Amharic will open the door to experiencing literature far different from that of the rest of the world. Once you have the basics down, try your hand at reading the most famous Amharic novel, “Fiqir Iske Meqabir” (translated into English as “Love Unto Crypt”) by Haddis Alemayehu.
Getting started with Amharic has never been easier. Learn some phrases and basic vocab at Amharic Teacher, and listen to Australia’s SBS Amharic stream here.
3 YORUBA
Yoruba is one of West Africa’s most spoken languages, accounting for over 30 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin and Togo, and it is one of Nigeria’s official languages. It is also widely spoken by West African expats in the US and UK. It is the mother tongue of the Yoruba people in Nigeria, and has over fifteen dialects including Awori, Ijesha, Ilaje and Ila. It is a tonal language with three tones: high, mid and low, and forms part of the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. To say hello in Yoruba, one says “Bawo”.
4 OROMO
Oromo is spoken by over 30 million people in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Egypt. The Oromo people account for more than 40% of the Ethiopian population, and are the largest ethnic group in the country. The writing of the language was forbidden between 1974 and 1991 under the Mengistu regime, even though limited usage of the Ge’ez script was allowed. After 1991, the language adopted the Latin alphabet. It falls under the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. To say hello in Oromo, one says “Akkam”.
5 HAUSA
Hausa is one of Nigeria’s official languages, and one of the most spoken Chadic languages on the continent, with over 40 million native and second language speakers. It originated as the language of the Hausa people in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, and soon spread as the lingua franca of western Africa due to trade. It is spoken mainly in northern Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Germany, Ghana, Sudan, Togo and much of North Africa. It uses the Boko and Latin alphabet as its writing system, and is also the basic language for most Muslim populations in western Africa. To say hello in Hausa, one says “Sannu”.
6 IGBO
One of Nigeria’s official languages, Igbo is spoken by over 20 million people, with a significant amount of speakers in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. The language has more than 20 dialects, with Central Igbo being the most prevalent. The language was made prominent by author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the popular book “Things Fall Apart” and wrote most of his books in Igbo, mirroring and popularizing Igbo culture. It falls under the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. To say hello in Igbo, one says “Nnoo”.
7 ZULU
IsiZulu, or Zulu, is one of South Africa’s official language, and has over 10 million speakers. It is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages, and is spoken mainly in eastern South Africa. It is the second most widely spoken Bantu language, after Shona, and is written using the Latin alphabet. It is characterized by unique click sounds within the dialect as a result of influence from the Khoisan language. To say hello in Zulu, one says “Sawubona”.
8 SHONA
Shona is the most spoken language in Zimbabwe, with over 10 million speakers in a population of over 14 million. It is Bantu language from the Bantu/Nguni family of languages, and has speakers in Botswana and Mozambique. It is the principle language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and English. To say hello in Shona, one says “Mhoro”.
9 ARABIC
Arabic is a huge language, fit for a huge continent.
If you decide to learn Arabic, well, you’ll probably get more bang for your buck than you even thought possible.
Arabic is a Semitic language, and it’s spoken by 280 million native speakers worldwide. As far as Africa is concerned, Arabic is an official language in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Libya, Eritrea… the list goes on! It’s also widely spoken in countries where it hasn’t yet been recognized as an official language.
Arabic comes in a number of flavors—to start out, you’ll choose between Modern Standard Arabic and colloquial dialects. If you learn Modern Standard Arabic, you’ll be able to communicate with most Arabic speakers around the world. Modern Standard Arabic is the written form of the language—this is the Arabic used in news articles, online and in novels. It’s spoken in newscasts and in some TV shows.
However, this is not the form of Arabic that native speakers always learn as children. They learn various dialects of Arabic, unique to their regions. Some of these dialects are more mutually intelligible (speakers of different dialects can understand each other) than others, but learning, say, Moroccan or Egyptian Colloquial Arabic gets you deeply connected with a culture in a way that Modern Standard Arabic can’t.
So, if you get really into Arabic, you’ll want to learn Modern Standard first, and then adopt a colloquial dialect of your choice!
How to Learn Arabic
So you wanna get started learning Arabic? Check out Stanford University’s Arabic Department site for more information on how to learn all aspects of the language, beginning with the basics.
If you want to put your efforts into learning a dialect, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic is a great place to start if you don’t have a specific country in mind—it’s the most spoken dialect. Browse this textbook for Egyptian Colloquial basics.
And what about the script? To readers of the Latin alphabet, Arabic looks incomprehensible. For starters, it’s written only in cursive, there are multiple forms of each letter and there are no vowels! What to do?
Well, let me tell you, learning to read Arabic is far easier than it looks. Give it a week, set some time aside to copy each letter down and, believe me, you’ll be sounding out texts before you know it.
9 PORTUGUESE
Portuguese is the official language of six African states, including Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome e Principe and Equatorial Guinea. These states are also referred to as Lusophone Africa. Portuguese has become a post-colonial language in Africa and one of the working languages of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community. It coexists on the continent with indigenous languages, mainly the Niger-Congo family languages in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau and Portuguese-based creoles in Guinea. There are approximately 14 million people who use Portuguese as their mother tongue on the continent, and over 30 million secondary speakers. to say hello in Portuguese, one says “Olá”.
10 FRENCH
Twenty-six African states form part of Francophone Africa, forming part of the top French-speaking countires on the continent. There are over 120 million French speakers who use the language as their mother tongue or secondary language. The highest percentage of people who speak French are from Gabon, Mauritius, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Sao Tome e Principe, Tunisia, Guinea, Seychelles, Democratic Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. The second largest French speaking country is Algeria, with over 50 percent of the population being French speakers. Much of the central and western Africa states form part of Francophone Africa, including Morocco, Mauritania, Rwanda, Comoros and Djibouti. To say hello in French, one says “Bonjour”.
Other widely spoken languages of Africa include Berber, which is a popular dialect in North Africa, specifically in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Mali and Egypt, with approximately 20 million speakers; Somali, which is a Cushitic language spoken in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya by approximately 20 million speakers; Fulani, which is widely spoken in western and Central Africa by approximately 18 million speakers; Rundi from Burundi which is spoken by over 10 million people; Kinyarwanda in Rwanda which is spoken by over 10 million speakers and Tigrinya, which has over 6 million speakers in Central Eritrea and Sudan. Chichewa is popular in Malawi with over 6 million speakers, and Spanish is also spoken in Equatorial Guinea by over 600,000 people.
Fake, Hausa has over 150 million speakers in Africa, check your data again!
The guy didn’t do much research.
You are right. Hausa is the most spoken African language in terms of number of speakers.
Hausa ido 12 at the world ranking
oh no you didnt
This article is full of errors, get your facts straight.
I think it would be interesting to your readers to know that Africa has no more than 20 core languages which are shared by many of its states. That’s when you classify and group its languages on the basis of mutual intelligibility.
That was only 10, wheres the 11th?
there are two 9’s
Thats what I’m looking for the 11th
The numbering is faulted. ‘9’ appeared twice for Arabic and Portuguese
this is stupid and probably political. There’re at least 20 million Somali speakers in east Africa.
a little correction , Nnoo in igbo means welcome and not hello
Crap! apparently Shona has more native speakers than Zulu, yet Zulu is 7th and Shona 8th on your list?
You counted 9 twice.
Oh wow
I only saw now when I went and checked😂💀
Where do you get this information from???? There are more than at least 70-80 million Amharic speakers….Amahric has been the lingua franca in Ethiopia for centuries and spoken in every corner of Ethiopia in at least on second language capacity (Ethio has population of 100 million plus). The specific Amhara ethinic group alone is more than 30-3 million, so this information is fake (probably written by OLF member). Oromo is spoken mainly by Oromo people only, who make up about 35 million people in Ethio and some additional people in Kenya. The Oromo language is also is not mutually intelligible as there are different dialects. Never heard of Oromo language in Egypt…LOL. Unless they’re counting Ethio Oromo immigrants there….
Where is your source? I can’t find valid data in this site. If you can’t find the right information, Please, try to stop to confuse the readers or try to show nearly the right information, for the world.
There is no oromo speaker in Egypt
It’s only in ethEthion and Kenyan maybe some Somalian. I never heard Egyptian have oromo speakers. Even I have Egyptian friends even they don’t know the name of the language. I think this might be fake.
I wonder when did oromo went to egypt and somalia they should be ethiopian immigrants
i have to poop it wint come out
help
Fake fake fake Oromos are more than 50 million get right information Oromo language is largest language in east Africa
Naa, In Africa apart from Arab,Swahili, Hausa comes next
This is not correct because only in Nigeria the hausa language speakers are more then 50 millions. For examples. In Kano there is more then 8millions people there an ninety six of them are housa speakers. Katsina 6million, sokoto, 5million zamfara,4million, jigawa3.5million. bauchi 3million. Gombe 3million. All the above are some of the States where more then 90percent of them are housa speakers. there are more like these were hausa speakers are 30-40percent. And also in some other states hausa have 10-15percet.
And all these only in Nigeria what about the nevouring country. Like niger, Chad,cCameron, Benin, and many more.
Interesting, Arabic has more countries which speaks it than Kiswahil. I think things for Africa leave them to the hands of African
So If Amharic is the second most spoken language in Ethiopia after oromo then how come it’s the second most spoken language in Africa before oromo when oromo is 4th? I guess we all know who wrote this don’t we Imao.
Language enthusiast my arse.
1. Please, reword your title to: Most spoken African language in Africa.
Then, remember to mention that French is Africa’s most widely spoken and most spoken language. Can’t believe you call yourself an enthusiast. Did you even go to university? Seriously? Did you even go?
Isn’t it horrible getting hate? Then stop putting absolute crap on the internet! This is the 2nd website Google showed. Meaning, who knows how many people read you crap article are now terribly misinformed.
I think we should choose swahili as a possible language to be spoken by all Africans we we will form one and only one country. I believe in Africa
you will do that with your kids
You must be Kidding,Hausa just only 40 million speakers
This is nonsense Bantu and Nguni are not the same thing. The language Shona may fall under the Bantu category but it does not fall under the Nguni category , the languages that are Nguni are isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and isiSwati
before you write something like this you must do research ,in your article you wrote that Swahili is spoken from southern Somalia ,no one speaks this language in Somalia.please check !!!!
you may mention Somali language which is spoken over 25 million people in Somalia,Kenya ,Ethiopia and Djibouti .since you call your website Africa-facts don’t try to hide the facts
Pless make it correct the 4 one is Afaan oromo, not Oromo
Oromo is Ethink, Afaan Oromo is Its language, Oromiya is Its Land capital city is Addis Ababa /Finfinne. Thanks!!!
Amharic is the first and Dominant language in Ethiopia—little correction
Lie’s hausa has about 200 hundreds million speaker’s,….
I won’t be surprised if this article was wrote by Nigerians, the Akan and Ewe is wildly spoken then igbo and youroba…. Akan or twi is speaking in Ivory coast and some part of serria Leone and Liberia. Ewe is spoken in ghana, Togo, Benin and some part of Nigeria.
Are you playing comedy or what? Hausa ido tidto, the most spoken african language in terms of number of speakers. If you lack data go and and ask Glottopol. Stop kidding, we need professional resesrches
You need more study specially on the number and spacial distribution of speakers of Amharic, Oromifa, Somali since you may not get oromo (only in ethiooia, kenya)speaker in somalia but you can get speaker of Somali in Djibouti(more than 70%, Somalia >99 %Ethiopians(7 million) kenya. Please check their number of speaker .
Thanks for you info
Are you kidding? Amharic is the first and most spoken as well as official language of Ethiopia. please google. it has more than 80 million speakers. don’t use fake data and mislead readers.
Very wrong imformation , where did you hear that equitoral guinee speak portugese ? And just 20% of cameroon speak english .
you made the great errors on oromic language your article was not correct since the oromic speaker are too above 50 million only in ethiopia with out inculding horn african country like kenya, Somalia and Egypt .so you should have to make correction on your journal by redoing research on those language.
Completely poor research and analysis. Hausa is the second after Swahili. And most scholars compare both the two as rivals in terms of number of speakers. Many blunders in this Article. Please make adequate findings before publishing an article. It’s unprofessional to make such huge mistakes in a single writeup
BIG BIG MISTAKE FOR THE ARABIC LANGUAGE; COUNTS MORE THAN 350 NATIVE SPEAKERS WORLD WIDE; IN AFRICA 100 MILLIONS PEOPLE LIVES IN EGYPT ONLY IF WE ADD ALL NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES (INCLUDIND SUDAN AND MAURITANIA) WE HAVE AT LEAST 230 MILLIONS NATIVE SPEAKERS. PLEASE REVIEW YOUR DATA AND CORRECT THE ARTICLE.
Afan Oromo is the most windely spoken language in African continent after Arabic, basically it is natively spoken by over 77 million people in Oromia and some neighboring countries,
Guys don’t blame the author for misconception. Remember that African countries hardly have a data base. Thus, it’s difficult to get precise data about Africa. What we have are assumptions and presumptions.
Are you kidding me? How can anyone name French Speaking African Nations without naming Cameroon? Cameroon French Speakers outweighs Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome all together. Also take note that Equatorial Guinea’s official language is Spanish and French is their second language of communication most especially used internationally as they belong to the Central African States Trade Block called CEMAC
Pacts about Hausa language is not true, even in Nigeria more than 100 million people spears the language. Worldwide over 150 speaks Hausa, please kindly check the search engine again.
In the very beginning Amharic is not official language in Ethiopia, it is working language in Ethiopia, in a sense official language is not figure for country like Ethiopia cos Ethiopia is multi ethnic country that have more than 81 ethnic groups is there and than how it could be posting this fake news in the world.
What a fun news does Amharic is the second largest language is spoken in Africa it might be by political dominance it was but when we are running after the reality the language is spoken by few ethnic groups in the northern part of Ethiopia that is comes or related with Arabs that might be considered as immigrant of Arabs come to the land of cush(kush) people.
How they could be in this position, by the way they have capacity stilling some other culture and every heritage that why they was on this position with fake information.
Where is Somali language 30 million ppl speaks somali as a native language Somali is the official language of Somalia and national language in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya
Ukweli mtupu.kiswahili ndicho lugha rahisi Sana kukielewa na huzungumzwa na watu wengi kusini mwa Sahara na maziwa makuu
All you spoke about Oromigna language is false, It has been spoken before 1974 but they used Geez alphabet, which is Erhiopian font. When EPRDF come to power Oromigna font is changed to latin, which is political decision. Before posting somethimg, please get credible information. Don’t jest copy from successionist OLF.
You write about major languages of Africa yet you failed to mention the Pularr?
How about KANURI language ? With speakers spread in Chad, Niger, Gabon, Cameroon, Central africa, Sudan, Nigeria and Libya with 17 million speakers
This article lacks facts and is written for just a sake of writing without any research work
How about Somali language which is many people language like Somalia Djibouti Somali state of Ethiopia North East Kenya
French is more spoken than English in Africa?
I know the French got quite good at colonization back in the day, but I always thought the English got more people to Africa who spread their language!
Everyday really is a school day!!
at the recent time Amharic has 110 million Speakers in Ethiopia only…..Update your report please???
Comment Text*yes bro mostly only in Nigeria it have over 50 million speak while in Niger is most speaking language both Ghana and Chad. Cameron
Babatunde Bello from Nigeria
The researcher has done his bit. What serious minded critics should do is get down to work and produce a more reliable write-up.
Mere snippets of criticisms, some of them not vouched for statistically, can’t and won’t satisfactorily correct the errors perceived in the original write-up.
My advice in summary is that anyone with a grouse against any part or all of the write-up should produce, for public consumptio, a better and more acceptable piece instead.
This I believe is the most logical and sensible thing to do. This is how it is done in academic circles. Which is why and how we have Knowledge growing in leaps and bounds.
Unfortunately! You forgot to mention Amazigh or Berberian language which was located in North Africa and Mali and Niger also
Hausa Is Expected To Have Actually 63M Speakers, 40M Is Primary Language, The Rest, Second Language
Hausa language according to Glottopol has more than 200 millions speakers. Hausa is the largest African language.
Check again
This is interesting. Africa is truly a huge continent and the typical thought is that all Africans might speak the same language aka African 😀 but that’s not even a language.
The writer has tries his best,but one fact remain that it lacks ideology about the population of each ethnic and data record of the population of each country discussed about,if you have any fact back him up,ok
Mr man your research outcome was fake! So let me school you more about Nigeria Hausa is most spoken language in Nigeria it has 19 states in Nigeria, and Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa it has more than 200million people and that population mainly comes out from northern part of Nigeria which is Hausa’s because Hausa’s have 19 states out of 36 states in Nigeria. So how comes Hausa people are having least speakers I mean they came 5th position despite having Hausa speakers in Cameroon, Chadi, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Togo, cote d’ivoir, Sudan,. Moreover with point of correction Nigeria is having over the 61,000,000 Hausa speakers, Ghana is having 290,000 Hausa speakers, Sudan 500,000 Cameroon is having 382,000 Niger is having 10,956,000 Eritrea is having 30,000 Hausa speakers. So now I gave you home work go do your research. Then what about we the Fulani’s in Africa? Fulani or fula or futa have dominated Africa, we have Fulani in Cameroon, Chadi, niger, Mali, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Togo, ginue, Nigeria more especially in my state Adamawa all we are Fulani speakers, in Katsina state also, and Sokoto, kebbi, zamfara, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, we have also percentage in Kwana state, and Kano state. So Mr man get your facts straight before posting stupidity.
Uhhhh okay what’s up with this article? Dude your numbers are messed up…how can you have only 15 million native speakers of the Swahili language when you have countries like Tanzania and Kenya which have populations of over 30 million each? And that’s not even the full number… Go check your figures
Kiswahili kitukuzwe
Hausa is on top. Please writer if u don’t have the actual fact on something so don’t penetrate ur self into it.cos this is illusion. And ur faculty of idear is poor and selfishness indeed.so back to research again.
How can you blatantly and ignorantly leave some of the most widely spoken languages out of your list?
How about Mandinka/Bambara/Dioula/Mandingo which is the Lingua Franca in the entire French West and some English countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia etc?
It is the Lingua Franca and trade language in all French West Africa.
Everybody in Mali speaks Mandinka/Bambara, same for Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina-Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia etc.
What a nonsense!
This is a complete ignorance.
Where is Somali Language?!
This fruad information what you to show the fact about African continent languages.
Amharic is the most popular language in Africa and 115 million native peoples speak only in Ethiopia and over 200 million peoples speak with Amharic in Africa. So, please update your data.
Oromo speakers only 20% in Ethiopia, not 40%, please correct your data.