1 Double knits include fabrics knitted with two or more sets of yarns. 2  The three basic knits and their variations are included under single weft knits. 3  As the type of machine on which it was knitted is not considered, this system is applicable to hand as well as machine knitted fabrics.
However, in all of Africa â a population of about1.2 billion â only 6.5 million people speak English as their native language. This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page.
Excluding northern Africa (Mauritania to Egypt and The Sudan) and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia to Somalia), some 85 percent of the population of Africaâat least 600 million peopleâspeak a Niger-Congo language. In two countries, Niger and Chad, Niger-Congo languages are spoken by a minority. In northern Nigeria, northern Uganda, and Kenya there are substantial populations speaking other languages, but even in these countries the majority of the population speaks a Niger-Congo language. Distribution of the Niger-Congo languages.