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Zambia

Zambia is home to 71 languages, spoken across Southern Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Lusaka

Nationality Zambian

Currency Zambian Kwacha (ZMW)

Languages 71

Independence Oct 24, 1964

69 active 2 endangered 0 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Zambia; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Zambia

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