The Origins of African Languages
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#5FPX0)
Joshua Rudder of the linguistic channel NativLang has created a highly informative animation that looks at the wide variety of languages spoken within the continent of Africa. To make understanding a bit easier, Rudder goes back to the origins of each language to find the common family from which they come.
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