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[[File:Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg|thumb|right|350px|alt=Ethnic groups in Africa|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). Color-coded are major 15 ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:<br/> | [[File:Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg|thumb|right|350px|alt=Ethnic groups in Africa|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). Color-coded are major 15 ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:<br/> | ||
'''[[Afro-Asiatic]]'''<br/> | '''[[Afro-Asiatic]]'''<br/> | ||
− | {{legend0|#f1f4a5| [[ | + | {{legend0|#f1f4a5| [[Hamitic]] ([[Berber_languages|Berber]], [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]) + [[Semites|Semitic]] ([[Ethiopian Semitic languages|Ethiopian]], [[Varieties of Arabic|Arabic]])}}<br/> |
{{legend0|#edeb5a|[[Hausa people|Hausa]] ([[Chadic languages|Chadic]])}}<br/> | {{legend0|#edeb5a|[[Hausa people|Hausa]] ([[Chadic languages|Chadic]])}}<br/> | ||
'''[[Niger-Congo|Niger Congo]]''' <br/> | '''[[Niger-Congo|Niger Congo]]''' <br/> |
Revision as of 15:05, 16 December 2012

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). Color-coded are major 15 ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:
Afro-Asiatic
Hamitic (Berber, Cushitic) + Semitic (Ethiopian, Arabic)
Hausa (Chadic)
Niger Congo
Bantu
"Guinean" (Volta-Niger, Kru)
"Western Bantoid" (Senegambian, Bak)
"Central Bantoid" (Gur)
"Eastern Bantoid" (Southern Bantoid)
Mande
Nilo-Saharan (unity doubtful)
Nilotic
Central Sudanic+Eastern Sudanic
Kanuri
Songhai
other
Khoi-San (unity doubtful; Khoikhoi, Bushmen, Sandawe, Hadza)
Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy)
Indo-European (Afrikaaner)
Afro-Asiatic
Hamitic (Berber, Cushitic) + Semitic (Ethiopian, Arabic)
Hausa (Chadic)
Niger Congo
Bantu
"Guinean" (Volta-Niger, Kru)
"Western Bantoid" (Senegambian, Bak)
"Central Bantoid" (Gur)
"Eastern Bantoid" (Southern Bantoid)
Mande
Nilo-Saharan (unity doubtful)
Nilotic
Central Sudanic+Eastern Sudanic
Kanuri
Songhai
other
Khoi-San (unity doubtful; Khoikhoi, Bushmen, Sandawe, Hadza)
Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy)
Indo-European (Afrikaaner)