How To Say "Hello" In The Eight Most Spoken African Languages In Africa

Kids Adventures in Africa, Oct 8, 2021  

If you had to guess which African languages are most spoken across Africa, what your guess be? This list might surprise you..

00:00 Intro

00:15 Shona [#8]

00:44 Zulu [#7]

01:00 Igbo [#6]

01:30 Amharic [#5]

02:06 Oromo [#4]

02:25 Yoruba [#3]

02: 40 Hausa [#2]

03: 00 Swahili [#1]

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video about how to say "hello" in the eight most spoken African languages in Africa. "Most spoken" means that these African languages are spoken by the most people. [This list only includes languages that originally came from African and not other languages such as Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish which are also spoken by Africans in the continent of Africa.

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EXCERPTS FROM THIS SHOWCASE VIDEO

[This video lists the eight most often spoken languages in Africa beginning with number eight. The auto-transcript is incomplete. Here are some excerpts of that video:

8. "Shona is one of the languages that is spoken in Zimbabwe. [That language is also spoken in] Mozambique, South Africa, and Malawi. And the way you say "Hello" in Shona is "Mhoroi" (pronunciation -MM-O-RO-I)."

7.  "Zulu is...spoken in South Africa... And here's how you say "hello" [in Zulu]:  "Sawubona" (SOW-BOH-NAH))"

6. "Igbo is spoken in Nigeria. ..And here's how you say "hello" [in Igbo]: "ndeewo" (N-DEH-WOH)."

5. "Amharic...is spoken in Ethiopia... When you want to say "hello" [in Amharic[, you say "Salem-naw (say-lam-now). [Amharic is also] spoken in Kenya and Somalia."

4. Oromo ..is another Ethiopian language. Here's how you say "hello" [in Oromo]: "Akkam" (A-KA-m]".

3. "Yoruba is Nigeria's second most popular language. It's spoken across West Africa by more than 40 million people. To say hello you say "Bawo-Ni (BA-WOH-NEE)."

2.  "The most spoken language in Nigeria is Hausa. It's native to Nigeria and is spoken by 30 million people. "Sannu" (SA-NEW)"

1. "The #1 spoken African language [is] Swahili. ...Swahili is the official language in six East African countries. More than 130 million people speak Swahili. And to say "hello" you say "Habari" (HA-BA-REE)"...

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