Article provides an overview of the language families of this continent, including Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan.
Read an archived newsgroup discussion of the Nilo-Saharan languages, which features syntactic and lexical comparisons among them.
Read a brief overview of this language family, spoken south of the Sahara Desert and along the Nile River.
Overview of this language family includes a linguistic map of Africa and a historical discussion of the Nilo-Saharan language Maasai.