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Summary
Ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, 1996 publication by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
From the map legend:
- NOTE: Principal source: Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, G.P. Murdock, 1959.
- Tribal or ethnic names may vary, depending on source
- Only large ethnolinguistic areas of intrusiveness are shown
- Ethnolinguistic boundaries are generalized
- Sparsely populated or uninhabited areas are shown by the absence of color.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic" class="extiw" title="w:Afro-Asiatic">Afro-Asiatic</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamitic" class="extiw" title="w:Hamitic">Hamitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Berber languages">Berber</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Cushitic languages">Cushitic</a>) + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Semitic languages">Semitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Ethiopian Semitic languages">Ethiopian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" class="extiw" title="w:Varieties of Arabic">Arabic</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hausa people">Hausa</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Chadic languages">Chadic</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger-Congo" class="extiw" title="w:Niger-Congo">Niger Congo</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Bantu peoples">Bantu</a>
"Guinean" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta%E2%80%93Niger_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Volta–Niger languages">Volta-Niger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Kru languages">Kru</a>)
"Western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegambian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Senegambian languages">Senegambian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Bak languages">Bak</a>)
"Central <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gur_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Gur languages">Gur</a>)
"Eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Bantoid_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Southern Bantoid languages">Southern Bantoid</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Mandé peoples">Mande</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Nilo-Saharan languages">Nilo-Saharan</a> (unity doubtful)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotes" class="extiw" title="w:Nilotes">Nilotic</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Central Sudanic">Central Sudanic</a>+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Eastern Sudanic">Eastern Sudanic</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanuri_people" class="extiw" title="w:Kanuri people">Kanuri</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai_people" class="extiw" title="w:Songhai people">Songhai</a>
other
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi-San" class="extiw" title="w:Khoi-San">Khoi-San</a> (unity doubtful; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoikhoi" class="extiw" title="w:Khoikhoi">Khoikhoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people" class="extiw" title="w:San people">San</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandawe_people" class="extiw" title="w:Sandawe people">Sandawe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hadza people">Hadza</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayo-Polynesian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Malayo-Polynesian languages">Malayo-Polynesian</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_people" class="extiw" title="w:Malagasy people">Malagasy</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European" class="extiw" title="w:Indo-European">Indo-European</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaaner" class="extiw" title="w:Afrikaaner">Afrikaaner</a>)
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| current | 16:02, 3 January 2017 | | 2,502 × 2,984 (2.62 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, 1996 publication by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. <p>From the map legend: </p> <dl> <dd> <i>NOTE: Principal source: Africa, its peoples and their cultural history</i>, G.P. Murdock, 1959.<i></i> </dd> <dd><i>Tribal or ethnic names may vary, depending on source</i></dd> <dd><i>Only large ethnolinguistic areas of intrusiveness are shown</i></dd> <dd><i>Ethnolinguistic boundaries are generalized</i></dd> <dd><i>Sparsely populated or uninhabited areas are shown by the absence of color.</i></dd> </dl> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic" class="extiw" title="w:Afro-Asiatic">Afro-Asiatic</a></b><br></p> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #f1f4a5;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamitic" class="extiw" title="w:Hamitic">Hamitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Berber languages">Berber</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Cushitic languages">Cushitic</a>) + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Semitic languages">Semitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Ethiopian Semitic languages">Ethiopian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" class="extiw" title="w:Varieties of Arabic">Arabic</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #edeb5a;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hausa people">Hausa</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Chadic languages">Chadic</a>)</div> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger-Congo" class="extiw" title="w:Niger-Congo">Niger Congo</a></b> </p> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #a9c356;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Bantu peoples">Bantu</a> </div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #a7be32;"> </span></span> "Guinean" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta%E2%80%93Niger_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Volta–Niger languages">Volta-Niger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Kru languages">Kru</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #446c23;"> </span></span> "Western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegambian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Senegambian languages">Senegambian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Bak languages">Bak</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #4e3644;"> </span></span> "Central <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gur_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Gur languages">Gur</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #dc6465;"> </span></span> "Eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Bantoid_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Southern Bantoid languages">Southern Bantoid</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #e1969a;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Mandé peoples">Mande</a> </div> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Nilo-Saharan languages">Nilo-Saharan</a></b> (unity doubtful) </p> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #6f3333;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotes" class="extiw" title="w:Nilotes">Nilotic</a> </div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #e09047;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Central Sudanic">Central Sudanic</a>+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Eastern Sudanic">Eastern Sudanic</a> </div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #7d5e25;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanuri_people" class="extiw" title="w:Kanuri people">Kanuri</a> </div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #d35723;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai_people" class="extiw" title="w:Songhai people">Songhai</a> </div> <p><b>other</b><br></p> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #d56a24;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi-San" class="extiw" title="w:Khoi-San">Khoi-San</a> (unity doubtful; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoikhoi" class="extiw" title="w:Khoikhoi">Khoikhoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people" class="extiw" title="w:San people">San</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandawe_people" class="extiw" title="w:Sandawe people">Sandawe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hadza people">Hadza</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #be9cbd;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayo-Polynesian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Malayo-Polynesian languages">Malayo-Polynesian</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_people" class="extiw" title="w:Malagasy people">Malagasy</a>)</div> <div style="direction:ltr;"> <span style="width: 2.8em; display: inline-block; text-align: center;"><span style="width: 2.4em; display: inline-block; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #808080; background-color: #86401e;"> </span></span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European" class="extiw" title="w:Indo-European">Indo-European</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaaner" class="extiw" title="w:Afrikaaner">Afrikaaner</a>)</div> |
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