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Ethnolinguistic groups in Africa
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the
Library of Congress
Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock,
Africa, its peoples and their cultural history
, 1959). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:
Afroasiatic
Hamitic
(
Berber
,
Cushitic
) +
Semitic
(
Ethiopian
,
Arabic
)
Hausa
(
Chadic
)
Niger–Congo
Bantu
"Guinean" (
Volta-Niger
,
Kwa
,
Kru
)
"Western
Bantoid
" (
Atlantic
)
"Central
Bantoid
" (
Gur
,
Senufo
)
"Eastern
Bantoid
" (
Southern Bantoid
)
Mande
Nilo-Saharan
(unity debated)
Nilotic
Central Sudanic
,
Eastern Sudanic (besides Nilotic)
Kanuri
Songhai
other
Khoi-San
(unity doubtful;
Khoikhoi
,
San
,
Sandawe
+
Hadza
)
Malayo-Polynesian
(
Malagasy
)
Indo-European
(
Afrikaaner
)
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