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Africa - A Polyglot Continent

  Table of Contents European Languages - Uniting different African Tongues The distribution of European and Arabic languages in Africa At face value, one can argue that the African continent appears to be the middle of Europe; hence every major European country has a hold on her from the perspective of  lingua franca . It is a given that an African is a polyglot coming from the African continent. Every African can boast of speaking more than one or two European languages; and if you count Arabic, that makes it three. The reason for this assumption is that there are many native African languages that they must cope with in their different countries. European Languages - Uniting different African Tongues It is pertinent to point out here that the European languages have helped bring many Africans together, at least to the point of having a vehicle of common means of communicating among themselves. The European languages have helped in that regard, but it has also deprived them o...