Ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, 1996 publication by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
<p>From the map legend:
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<dl><dd><i>NOTE: Principal source: Africa, its peoples and their cultural history</i>, G.P. Murdock, 1959.<i></i></dd>
<dd><i>Tribal or ethnic names may vary, depending on source</i></dd>
<dd><i>Only large ethnolinguistic areas of intrusiveness are shown</i></dd>
<dd><i>Ethnolinguistic boundaries are generalized</i></dd>
<dd><i>Sparsely populated or uninhabited areas are shown by the absence of color.</i></dd></dl><p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic" class="extiw" title="w:Afro-Asiatic">Afro-Asiatic</a></b><br></p>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#f1f4a5;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamitic" class="extiw" title="w:Hamitic">Hamitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Berber languages">Berber</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Cushitic languages">Cushitic</a>) + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Semitic languages">Semitic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Semitic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Ethiopian Semitic languages">Ethiopian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" class="extiw" title="w:Varieties of Arabic">Arabic</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#edeb5a;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hausa people">Hausa</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadic_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Chadic languages">Chadic</a>)</div>
<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger-Congo" class="extiw" title="w:Niger-Congo">Niger Congo</a></b>
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<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#a9c356;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Bantu peoples">Bantu</a></div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#a7be32;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> "Guinean"  (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta%E2%80%93Niger_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Volta–Niger languages">Volta-Niger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Kru languages">Kru</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#446c23;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> "Western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegambian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Senegambian languages">Senegambian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Bak languages">Bak</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#4e3644;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> "Central <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gur_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Gur languages">Gur</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#dc6465;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> "Eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantoid" class="extiw" title="w:Bantoid">Bantoid</a>" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Bantoid_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Southern Bantoid languages">Southern Bantoid</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#e1969a;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mand%C3%A9_peoples" class="extiw" title="w:Mandé peoples">Mande</a></div>
<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Nilo-Saharan languages">Nilo-Saharan</a></b> (unity doubtful)
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<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#6f3333;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotes" class="extiw" title="w:Nilotes">Nilotic</a></div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#e09047;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Central Sudanic">Central Sudanic</a>+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sudanic" class="extiw" title="w:Eastern Sudanic">Eastern Sudanic</a></div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#7d5e25;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanuri_people" class="extiw" title="w:Kanuri people">Kanuri</a></div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#d35723;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai_people" class="extiw" title="w:Songhai people">Songhai</a></div>
<p><b>other</b><br></p>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#d56a24;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi-San" class="extiw" title="w:Khoi-San">Khoi-San</a> (unity doubtful; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoikhoi" class="extiw" title="w:Khoikhoi">Khoikhoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people" class="extiw" title="w:San people">San</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandawe_people" class="extiw" title="w:Sandawe people">Sandawe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people" class="extiw" title="w:Hadza people">Hadza</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#be9cbd;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayo-Polynesian_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Malayo-Polynesian languages">Malayo-Polynesian</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_people" class="extiw" title="w:Malagasy people">Malagasy</a>)</div>
<div class="legend" style="direction:ltr;line-height:23px;"><div class="legend-content" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;box-sizing:border-box;width:34px;height:23px;overflow:hidden;font-size:15px;border:thin solid #333;background:#86401e;color:#202122;text-align:center;"> </div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European" class="extiw" title="w:Indo-European">Indo-European</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaaner" class="extiw" title="w:Afrikaaner">Afrikaaner</a>)</div>
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
1996
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