Map of the languages of Africa,prepared by German geographer Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834-1913) for 'Modern Languages of Africa' (1883) by British linguist Robert Needham Cust (1821-1909). The language groups (colour key at bottom left) are: Semitic (pink),Hamitic (yellow,modern Berber,Egyptian,and Cushitic),Nuba-Falah (orange),Negro (brown,western Africa),Bantu (green) and Hottentot-Bushman (brown,southern Africa,modern Khoi-San). The area covered by the terms Nuba-Falah,Negro and Bantu falls mostly under what is now called the Niger-Congo languages,of which the Bantu languages remain a major subdivision | |
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