Kipin

Population of speakers: about 50,000

The Nubi language (or kinubi) is spoken by about 50,000 people in Uganda, Kenya, and Sudan. The language is said to have come from Emin Pasha's (Ottoman Physician) Sudanese soldiers that settled in Uganda.

The language is a Arabic creole and derived 90% of its lexicon from Arabic and like most creole the grammar and pronunciation has been simplified.

Its very hard to find more information than this on Nubi so for this language this is the most I could dig up but I found it very interesting and worth mentioning. I love creoles they are something I'd like to cover more in the future.

Wanted to start a series showing what native (indigenous) speakers of different languages look like starting with Swahili.

Swahili girl from Zanzibar.

Swahili men from Zanzibar City.

Children on Pemba Island, Tanzania.

Children in Lamu Island, Kenya.

He inspired so many of us.

Wolof

Population of L1 Speakers: 5 million

Wolof is a national language of Senegal, where it is spoken by approximately 4.6 million people as a first language (mother tongue). An additional 7.8 million people use Wolof as a lingua franca, 40% of Senegalese know Wolof. Significant numbers of Wolof speakers also are found in France, Mauritania, and Mali.

Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger-Congo language family, but unlike Serer and Fula it is not tonal.

Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. "Dakar-Wolof", for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic.

The English language is believed to have adopted some Wolof words, such as banana, via Spanish or Portuguese. Also the slang word "Jive" used mostly in the 70s is thought to have come from Wolof via African Americans.

3 Phrases in Wolof:

1) I need your help.

1) Soxla naa sa ndimbal.

2) Where are we going?

2) Fan la nuy dem?

3) I’m sick.

3) Damaa wopp.

The official language of Poland is Polish.

Virtually all official information is in Polish only, including street signs, directions, information signs, etc., as well as schedules and announcements at train and bus stations. Airports and a few major train stations usually do have information in English, though. Information signs in museums, churches, etc., signs are typically in multiple languages at popular tourist destinations, elsewhere in Polish only.

The vast majority of young people know English, usually at a decent level. Older Poles, however, especially those outside the main cities, will speak little or no English. However, it is possible that they speak either French, German or Russian, taught in schools as the main foreign languages until the 1990s. German remains very common, especially in Western Poland. Russian is common in Eastern Poland and has had a small revival since the 2010s thanks to tourism from Russia. However, French has almost completely disappeared from Polish schools.

Czech and Slovak, like Russian, are Slavic languages that share many similarities with Polish; it can be possible to hold a basic conversation in those languages.