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Advancement of Food-Producing Economies Accompanying Khoikhoi and Bantu Migrations (Newman)
Advancement of Food-Producing Economies Accompanying Khoikhoi and Bantu Migrations
Map Creator:
James L. Newman
Source: The Peopling of Africa. 1995. New Haven: Yale University Press: p. 186.
Date Created: 1995
Map Description:
This map highlights the geographic features and peoples that influenced the development of southern Africa. The Khoikhoi herders and Bantu cultivators migrated along the route shown, forcing the San to shift a little farther north. Despite this displacement, these groups coexisted for some time, until the arrival of European settlers pressured them to move north again. With this reversal of directions, the Europeans created a wave of migration; the resulting clashes between the Europeans and the Bantu and multiple Bantu groups affected populations as far north as Tanzania (Newman 1995: 184-186).
Source: The Peopling of Africa. 1995. New Haven: Yale University Press: p. 186.
Date Created: 1995
Map Description:
This map highlights the geographic features and peoples that influenced the development of southern Africa. The Khoikhoi herders and Bantu cultivators migrated along the route shown, forcing the San to shift a little farther north. Despite this displacement, these groups coexisted for some time, until the arrival of European settlers pressured them to move north again. With this reversal of directions, the Europeans created a wave of migration; the resulting clashes between the Europeans and the Bantu and multiple Bantu groups affected populations as far north as Tanzania (Newman 1995: 184-186).
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African Ethnic Groups (Public Content)
Ethnic Groups of Africa
Source: Africa Ethnic Groups
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
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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.
Southern Africa's Linguistic Distributions (Westphal)
Southern Africa's Linguistic Distributions
Source:
Westphal, E.O.J. 1963. The Linguistic Prehistory of Southern Africa: Bush, Kwadi Hottentot, and Bantu Linguistic Relationships. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 33 (3). 263.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map summarizes language distributions and their dispersal in Southern Africa. Westphal notes that this is without reference to the time at which the distributions and dispersals took place.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map summarizes language distributions and their dispersal in Southern Africa. Westphal notes that this is without reference to the time at which the distributions and dispersals took place.
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The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmaplinguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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