Maps of Eastern Sudanic
Cushitic: Cushitic Groupings (Bender)
Cushitic Groupings
Source:
M. Lionel Bender (ed.). 1976. The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. Easting Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. 90.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map illustrates the suggested Cushitic groupings in Ethiopia around the 3rd millennium B.C. It shows the location of several groups which would later develop into many of today's modern Cushitic populations (Bender 1976).
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map illustrates the suggested Cushitic groupings in Ethiopia around the 3rd millennium B.C. It shows the location of several groups which would later develop into many of today's modern Cushitic populations (Bender 1976).
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).
North Africa: Nilo-Saharan in Northern Africa
Nilo-Saharan 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.
"Nilo-Saharan: Composite 2010". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: May 2011.
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Nilo-Saharan languages are spoken today. Ranging from Egypt and the White Nile to Uganda and Sudan, Irvine and Appleyard (2007) estimate that there are approximately 90 distinct living languages and dialect clusters. This number varies widely, however, and as further research is done and the complexity of the classification system of the family increases, more languages are being discovered (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.
"Nilo-Saharan: Composite 2010". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: May 2011.
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Nilo-Saharan languages are spoken today. Ranging from Egypt and the White Nile to Uganda and Sudan, Irvine and Appleyard (2007) estimate that there are approximately 90 distinct living languages and dialect clusters. This number varies widely, however, and as further research is done and the complexity of the classification system of the family increases, more languages are being discovered (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.