Spanish, oficial language in African Union

/*-   Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:20 am GMT
Good Question Joao.

I think it Is Swahili.
Bill   Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:12 pm GMT
In North Africa, it's the various dialects of Arabic and Berber
In West Africa, it's Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Fula
In East Africa, it's Amharic, Swahili, Oromo and Somali
In South Africa, it's Zulu, Xhosa, Shona and Magalasy (Madagascar)
In Central Africa, it's Lingala, Kinyarwanda and Kongo

All of those languages have more than 10 million speakers, some considerably more. As well, over a thousand languages have some number of speakers in Africa.
Visitor   Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:10 am GMT
<< Spanish people may have a lot of trouble when learning other Romance languages maybe due to lack of motivation as these languages are really useless compared to Spanish. >>

You mean Spanish is useless outside its turf (Castilia and Hispanic America) unlike French which is the preferred lingua franca when the other party is does not speak English. French is useful as a lingua franca in Europe,Middle East, Africa, Asia, and even between Hispanics and Lussophones.
Guest   Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:18 pm GMT
French a lingua franca in Asia? Hahaha, sure. Nobody uses French as a lingua franca because it's an endangered language.
Visitor   Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:47 pm GMT
Spanish an official language of African Union? Hahaha, sure. Nobody uses Spanish as an official language in international organization because it's an soon to be extinct language since it's disintegrating.
Guest   Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:49 pm GMT
Do you see many people on Antimoon using French? You don't because it's not a lingua franca, Spanish isn't as well. It's your head that is disintegrating.
Visitor   Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:52 pm GMT
Do you see many people on Antimoon using Spanish? You don't because it's not a lingua franca, French is like Mallorqui. It's your head that is disintegrating.
JC   Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:30 pm GMT
Actually you DO see a lot of people using Spanish at Antimoon... and pretty much anywhere else in the internet, there are always Spanish speakers.
US USer   Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:24 pm GMT
Well, it shows the reality. The three languages of Internet are English, Chinese and Spanish. So, it should be more Internet users of these languages also here.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm


PD. English, Chinese and Spanish. Always these 3 languages are the most powerful...Sorry, mes amis.
Joao   Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:49 pm GMT
Hei, napoleons and quixotes! shut up, ok? How many hundreds of years will you keep going on here with the same childish posts?
I think everybody has had enough, no?

About African languages, what about Mandingo? It's west African and spoken in a few countries. Any idea about the number of speakers?

Ín which countries is Swahili spoken? Quenia and what else?
Kaeops   Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:57 am GMT
Swahili (Kiswahili) is spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands.
American USer   Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:55 pm GMT
<< Well, it shows the reality. The three languages of Internet are English, Chinese and Spanish. So, it should be more Internet users of these languages also here.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm


PD. English, Chinese and Spanish. Always these 3 languages are the most powerful...Sorry, mes amis. >>

Sure, Chinese and Spanish are at the bottom when it comes Internet GNP.

In 2004 French was 6th and it became 5th.

The Language growth (2000-2008)% of French is 458.7 and Spanish is 405.3. Soon French will surpass Japanese and eventually Spanish as Francophone Africa goes online.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
American User   Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:58 pm GMT
Well, it shows the reality. The three languages of Wikipedia are English, French and German. So, it should be more Internet users of these languages also here.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

PD. English, French and German. Always these 3 languages are the most powerful...Sorry, mes amis.
American User   Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:00 pm GMT
<< Well, it shows the reality. The three languages of Internet are English, Chinese and Spanish. So, it should be more Internet users of these languages also here.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm


PD. English, Chinese and Spanish. Always these 3 languages are the most powerful...Sorry, mes amis. >>

Sure, Chinese and Spanish are at the bottom when it comes Internet GNP.

In 2004 French was 6th and it became 5th.

The Language growth (2000-2008)% of French is 458.7 and Spanish is 405.3. Soon French will surpass Japanese and eventually Spanish as Francophone Africa goes online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Blanco   Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:16 pm GMT
This French is retard. He gives us a webpage where it shows the power of Spanish language.

It shows that Spanish is more spoken than French, it has more Internet users, better GDP per capita and better percentage in World economy.

Well, I think that the most important are the percentage of World economy for each language:

1. English
2. Chinese 13%
3. Spanish 8.9%
4. Japanese 8%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage