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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). 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
)