Africa
Algeria: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
 
Angola: Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages
 
Benin: French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
 
Botswana: Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4%
 
Burkina Faso: French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
 
Burundi: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
 
Cameroon: 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
 
Central African Republic: French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages
 
Chad: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
 
Congo, Democratic Republic: French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
 
Congo Republic: French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
 
Cote D' Ivoire: French (official), 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken
 
Djibouti: French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar
 
Egypt: Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
 
Eritea: Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages
 
Ethiopia: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools)
 
Gabon: French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi
 
Gambia: English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
 
Ghana: English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga)
 
Guinea: French (official), each ethnic group has its own language
 
Guinea Bissau: Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages
 
Kenya: English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages
 
Lesotho: Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
 
Liberia: English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
 
Libya: Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities
 
Mali: French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages
 
Mauritania: Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Hassaniya, Wolof
 
Mauritius: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4% (official), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%
 
Morocco: Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy
 
Mozambique: Emakhuwa 26.1%, Xichangana 11.3%, Portuguese 8.8% (official; spoken by 27% of population as a second language), Elomwe 7.6%, Cisena 6.8%, Echuwabo 5.8%, other Mozambican languages 32%, other foreign languages 0.3%, unspecified 1.3%
 
Namibia: English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
 
Niger: French (official), Hausa, Djerma
 
Nigeria: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
 
Reunion: French (official), Creole widely used
 
Rwanda: Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
 
Senegal: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka
 
Seychelles: Creole 91.8%, English 4.9% (official), other 3.1%, unspecified 0.2%
 
Sierra Leone: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
 
Somalia: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
 
Sudan: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
note: program of "Arabization" in process
 
Swaziland: English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official)
 
Tanzania:Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages
note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
 
Togo: French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
 
Tunisia: Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce)
 
Uganda: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
 
Western Sahara: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
 
Zaire: -
 
Zambia: English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
 
Zimbabwe: English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects