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Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

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which have undergone

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, have no

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and no spoken descendant. There are 49 languages listed; 11 from Eastern Africa, 8 from Middle Africa, 17 from Northern Africa, 3 from Southern Africa, 10 from Western Africa.

Eastern Africa

Eritrea

* Geez * Italian Eritrean

Ethiopia

* Gafat * Mesmes * Weyto

Kenya

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Madagascar

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(with Glottolog code, unclassifiable)

Tanzania

* Kw'adza * Ngasa

Uganda

* Nyang'i * Singa

Middle Africa

Angola

* Kwadi

Cameroon

* Duli * Gey (possibly a dialect of Duli) * Nagumi * Yeni

Chad

* Horo * Muskum

Democratic Republic of the Congo

* Ngbee

Northern Africa

* Ancient Nubian

Algeria

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Egypt

* Ancient Egyptian

Sudan

* Baygo *

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* Birked * Gule *

Homa Homa may refer to: Places Ethiopia * Homa (woreda), a district in Oromia Region, Ethiopia Kenya * Homa Bay, a town and a bay on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya * Homa Mountain, a volcano near Homa Bay, Kenya Iran * Chal Homa, Mark ...

* Meroitic * Mittu * Togoyo * Torona

Tunisia

African Romance African Romance or African Latin is an extinct Romance language that was spoken in the Roman province of Africa by the Roman Africans during the later Roman and early Byzantine Empires, and several centuries after the annexation of the region by ...

Mediterranean Lingua Franca The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a pidgin language that was used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. Etymology ''Lingua franca'' meant literally "Frankish language" in Late Latin, a ...

Punic The Punic people, or western Phoenicians, were a Semitic people in the Western Mediterranean who migrated from Tyre, Phoenicia to North Africa during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' – the Latin equivalent of the ...

* Sened *

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Southern Africa

South Africa

* ǁXegwi * ǀXam * Seroa

Western Africa

Ivory Coast

* Esuma * Gbin

Nigeria

Ajawa The yao people, ''wayao'', are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, who played an important part in the history of Southeast Africa during the 19th century. The Yao are a predominantly Muslim ...

* Auyokawa * Basa-Gumna * Gamo-Ningi * Kpati * Kubi * Mawa * Teshenawa

References

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Extinct languages of Africa

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