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55% of Africa's 501 languages (prominent languages) have fewer than 100,000 native speakers. Most are spoken by communities smaller than a mid-size town. I visualized Africa's linguistic landscape to understand the scale of linguistic diversity. A few findings:

• Just 40 languages account for 80% of all speakers.
• The Khoisan family, Earth's oldest language, has only 267,000 total speakers across 9 languages.
• Arabic alone represents 1 in 6 African language speakers