Maps of Dogon
Dogon Villages - Endonyms, Exonyms, and Primary Languages Spoken (Heath)
Dogon Villages in Mali and Burkina Faso (Endonyms, Exonyms, and Primary Language Spoken)
Map Creator:
Jeff Heath
Source: GPS Coordinate Data and Dogon and Bangime Linguistics
Contact: Jeff Heath, University of Michigan, Dogon and Bangime Linguistics
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: GPS Coordinate Data provided by Jeff Heath on behalf of the Dogon project.
Date Created: 9 July 2010
Map Description:
According to the Dogon Languages project website, approximately twenty Dogon languages exist, but due to terrain and climate, many villages have not yet been suitably surveyed. This map shows villages (listed by endonym and exonym) as well as the dominant language variety of each surveyed village; see the Dogon and Bangime Linguistics website for more information.
Note:
Each map in this series contains a high quality satellite relief map which will appear as the user zooms in and may take some time to load.
Source: GPS Coordinate Data and Dogon and Bangime Linguistics
Contact: Jeff Heath, University of Michigan, Dogon and Bangime Linguistics
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: GPS Coordinate Data provided by Jeff Heath on behalf of the Dogon project.
Date Created: 9 July 2010
Map Description:
According to the Dogon Languages project website, approximately twenty Dogon languages exist, but due to terrain and climate, many villages have not yet been suitably surveyed. This map shows villages (listed by endonym and exonym) as well as the dominant language variety of each surveyed village; see the Dogon and Bangime Linguistics website for more information.
Note:
Each map in this series contains a high quality satellite relief map which will appear as the user zooms in and may take some time to load.
Ethnographic Regions of Africa (Felix and Meur)
Ethnographic Regions of Africa (Felix and Meur)
Map Creator:
Meur, Charles
Source: Felix, Marc Leo. 2001. Peoples of Africa: An Ethnolinguistic Atlas of Africa, map by Charles Meur, Brussles: Tribal Arts s.p.r.l.
Contact: Ben Lewis: blewis
cga.harvard.edu
Usage Notes: This georeferenced version of the People's Atlas of Africa is made available by permission from Marc Felix. This data is made available for non-commercial purposes and may be shared with others provided that this attribution and the license file is provided along with the data.
Date Uploaded: 29-JUN-2011
Map Description:
The shapefiles for this map are used with permission from Marc Felix. They depict ethnicity data based on the "People's Atlas of Africa" by Marc Felix and Charles Meur, Copyright 2001. The languages codes associated are from the Multitree project.
Due to the vast amount of data being displayed, it is recommended to view this map using the 'zoom' feature.
Source: Felix, Marc Leo. 2001. Peoples of Africa: An Ethnolinguistic Atlas of Africa, map by Charles Meur, Brussles: Tribal Arts s.p.r.l.
Contact: Ben Lewis: blewis
cga.harvard.edu
Usage Notes: This georeferenced version of the People's Atlas of Africa is made available by permission from Marc Felix. This data is made available for non-commercial purposes and may be shared with others provided that this attribution and the license file is provided along with the data.
Date Uploaded: 29-JUN-2011
Map Description:
The shapefiles for this map are used with permission from Marc Felix. They depict ethnicity data based on the "People's Atlas of Africa" by Marc Felix and Charles Meur, Copyright 2001. The languages codes associated are from the Multitree project.
Due to the vast amount of data being displayed, it is recommended to view this map using the 'zoom' feature.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered
for compatibility with our project interface. Slight
imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration
process.
North Africa: Niger-Congo in Northern Africa
Niger-Congo in Northern Africa
Data Source:
Irvine, A. K. and David Appleyard. 2007. "The Middle East and North Africa". In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.). Atlas of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Routledge.
"Niger-Congo: Composite 2010". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: May 2011.
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where some Niger-Congo languages are spoken today in northern Africa. The languages shown are only a few of this family's members, which cover most of Africa south of the Saharan desert (Irvine and Appleyard 2007).
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Northern African Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
"Niger-Congo: Composite 2010". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: May 2011.
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where some Niger-Congo languages are spoken today in northern Africa. The languages shown are only a few of this family's members, which cover most of Africa south of the Saharan desert (Irvine and Appleyard 2007).
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Northern African Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.
Sudan: Rising and Falling Empires in West Sudan (Newman)
Rising and Falling Empires in Western Sudan
Source:
Newman, James L. 1995. The Peopling of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press. 111.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
As shown by Newman, this map shows the locations of the various empires in Western Sudan between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Newman notes that the first polity to gain prominence was Ghana, which did so by trading. Historians do not know for sure, however, what caused Ghana's decline.
Since Mali surrounded an area of agricultural lands and controlled routes to the goldfields, Mali was able to overthrow Soso in the 1330s. The Mali Empire continued to expand, but internal factionalism during the latter half of the fourteenth century contributed to its decline.
The Songhai took possession of Timbuktu and Djenne and then drove out the Mossi. After obtaining a considerable amount of wealth, battles over royal sucession during the sixteenth century and a Moroccan invasion contributed to the decline of the Songhai military empire.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
As shown by Newman, this map shows the locations of the various empires in Western Sudan between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Newman notes that the first polity to gain prominence was Ghana, which did so by trading. Historians do not know for sure, however, what caused Ghana's decline.
Since Mali surrounded an area of agricultural lands and controlled routes to the goldfields, Mali was able to overthrow Soso in the 1330s. The Mali Empire continued to expand, but internal factionalism during the latter half of the fourteenth century contributed to its decline.
The Songhai took possession of Timbuktu and Djenne and then drove out the Mossi. After obtaining a considerable amount of wealth, battles over royal sucession during the sixteenth century and a Moroccan invasion contributed to the decline of the Songhai military empire.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).