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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). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:<br/>
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[[File:Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|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). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:<br/>
 
'''[[Afroasiatic]]'''<br/>
 
'''[[Afroasiatic]]'''<br/>
 
{{legend0|#f1f4a5|[[Hamitic]] ([[Berber_languages|Berber]], [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]) + [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] ([[Ethiopian Semitic languages|Ethiopian]], [[Varieties of Arabic|Arabic]])}}<br/>
 
{{legend0|#f1f4a5|[[Hamitic]] ([[Berber_languages|Berber]], [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]) + [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] ([[Ethiopian Semitic languages|Ethiopian]], [[Varieties of Arabic|Arabic]])}}<br/>

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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). 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)