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English: Map showing the distribution of African language families (according to Joseph H. Greenberg's classification) and some major African languages.

Date

2004-12-27 (original PNG version); 2007-07-03 (SVG version)

Source

Own work. Data from:

Heine, Bernd & Derek Nurse (eds.) (2000) African languages: an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stroomer, Harry (2002) In de schaduw van het Arabisch : over niet-arabische talen en culturen in Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten. Inaugural oration, Leiden University.
Webb, Vic and Kembo-Sure (eds.) (1998) African Voices. An introduction to the languages and linguistics of Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.
Kohler 1976 Khoi-San map (S.D.C.G. Laboratoire de Carthographie Thématique. PARIS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.) [1]
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Original PNG version is/was Image:African language families.png

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Mark Dingemanse (original PNG version); User:Pmx (SVG version)

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العربية	Dansk	English	Esperanto
Français	Italiano	Macedonian	Norsk
Svenska (PNG)	Русский	தமிழ் (Tamil)	‪中文(中国大陆)‬

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