Linguistic rights in Africa are stated in constitutions which differ by country.
Most of the linguistic rights stated here are negative rights, which grant freedom of usage of own language and prevent discrimination based on language.
[2] Constitution as amended on 17 January 1995.
[16] Constitution as amended on 1 October 1991.
[22] Chapter 1, Article 3 of the constitution of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic stipulates that the sole official language of Western Sahara shall be standard Arabic.
[23] In practice, Spanish is used as a working language by some Sahrawi media.
The vernacular language spoken by nearly all Sahrawis, however, is Hassaniya Arabic.
[2] Constitution as amended on 1 February 2007[24] Clarkson 2022/January 22