Attendees of the 2016 Women of Color Empowerment Dinner socialize and eat during the event. dinner2.jpg. Original artworks created by students at Western are on display at the silent auction. All the proceeds from the silent auction go to the funds for the Women of Color Empowerment Scholarship for 2017.
There are an estimated 2,000 languages spoken in Africa. The American linguist Joseph Greenberg argued that they fall into six major linguistic families 1  : Afroasiatic stretches from North Africa to the Horn of Africa and Southwest Asia. 2  Nilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad.
There is disagreement about the classification of one major language: Dogon. Map of Niger-Congo languages (click to enlarge it). a) Atlantic, the westernmost branch of the Niger-Congo, is spoken along the Atlantic Coast.t comprises more than 1000 languages and is spoken by about 60 % of the population of Africa. Classification and Distribution. Niger-Congo predominates in sub-Saharan Africa extending from Senegal in the west to Kenya in the east, and south up to South Africa.