Template:Ethnolinguistic groups in Africa
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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
Semitic+Hamitic
Hausa
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
Semitic+Hamitic
Hausa
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)