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Languages spoken in Togo

52 living languages are mapped in Togo. The most widely spoken, by Unicode CLDR’s estimate, is French (41% of the population). They belong to 3 language families, the largest being Atlantic-Congo (50 languages).

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

Languages of Togo at a glance

  • 52living languages
  • 3language families
  • 8.9 millionpeople (CLDR estimate)
  • 4with a CLDR share

Tap the map to list every language whose area covers a spot in Togo. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap, and a language that is mapped here is not necessarily spoken everywhere inside its area.

The 40 most widely spoken languages in Togo

Languages with a Unicode CLDR share come first, biggest first by estimated speakers; the rest follow A to Z. Estimated speakers are the share applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country.

LanguageFamilyShare of populationEstimated speakersStatus
FrenchIndo-European41%3,656,376Not endangered
EweAtlantic-Congo17%1,516,058Not endangered
IfèAtlantic-Congo1.3%115,934Not endangered
AniiAtlantic-Congo0.2%13,377Threatened
AdangbeAtlantic-CongoThreatened
AdeleAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
AgunaAtlantic-CongoShifting
Aja (Benin)Atlantic-CongoNot endangered
AkanAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
AkaselemAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
AkebuAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
AnufoAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
Bago-KusuntuAtlantic-CongoShifting
BialiAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
BimobaAtlantic-CongoThreatened
BissaMandeNot endangered
DagbaniAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
DeloAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
DitammariAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
FonAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
FoodoAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
GenAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
GikyodeAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
GinyangaAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
GourmanchémaAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
IgoAtlantic-CongoShifting
IkposoAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
KabiyéAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
KonkombaAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
Kotafon GbeAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
KpessiAtlantic-CongoThreatened
Kura Ede NagoAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
KusaalAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
Lama (Togo)Atlantic-CongoNot endangered
LelemiAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
LukpaAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
MampruliAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
Manigri-Kambolé Ede NagoAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
Maxi GbeAtlantic-CongoNot endangered
MbelimeAtlantic-CongoNot endangered

Read more: where is French spoken?

Language families in Togo

All 52 languages in Togo, A to Z

About these numbers

The list of languages in Togo comes from the overlap of Glottography and Glottolog language areas and positions with the country outline, together with the languages Glottolog assigns to the country. The shares come from Unicode CLDR release 48 and are estimates. See every source and licence.

Questions about languages in Togo

How many languages are spoken in Togo?

52 living languages are mapped in Togo, from 3 families. The number depends on how a catalogue decides where one language ends and another begins, so other sources give other totals.

What is the most spoken language in Togo?

By Unicode CLDR's estimate, French is spoken by 41% of the population, about 3,656,376 people, followed by Ewe (17%). Shares are approximate, can add up to more than 100% because many people speak several languages, and only cover languages CLDR has a figure for.

Which language families are found in Togo?

Atlantic-Congo (50 languages), Indo-European (1 language) and Mande (1 language).

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