How the HELL are there over 2000 LANGUAGES in AFRICA?

There’s no way. There are 54 countries in Africa, so each county has on average, 34 languages! That’s 34 DIFFERENT languages per country…not buying it.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-languages-are-spoken-in-africa.html

Linguists estimate that nearly 2,000 native languages are spoken in Africa. One of the countries with the highest number of indigenous languages is Nigeria as some estimates indicate that 500 languages are spoken within its borders.

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