1500-2000 languages are spoken in africa In addition, Africa has a wide variety of sign languages, many of which are language isolates. About a hundred of the languages of Africa are widely used for inter-ethnic communication. Arabic<span>, Somali, Berber, </span>Amharic<span>, Oromo, </span>Swahili<span>, Hausa, Manding, Fulani and </span>Yoruba<span> are spoken by tens of millions of people.</span>