The East Chadic languages include 34 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Africa; this language group is a part of the Chadic language family. Each subgroup in this list contains individual languages. Currently, the subgroups of the East Chadic language group are technically identified by letters. SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... The Chadic languages are a language family spoken across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum; their best-known member is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa. ...
Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Bambara, spoken in Mali, is the principal language in this subgroup.
Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic.