Maps of Somali
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.
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).
Iran: Linguistic Composition (Izady)
Linguistic Composition of Iran
Source:
Linguistic Composition of Iran
Data Source: Dr. M. Izady. 2006. Linguistic Composition of Iran. In Atlas Narodov Mira, S. Bruk and V. Apenchenko, eds, (Moscow, 1964).
Contact: Dr. M. Izady, izadym
yahoo.com
Copyright Status: May be used with permission from author.
Map Description:
A map showing the linguistic composition of Iran. Please note that this map has many different layers, and that some of them overlap.
From the legend:
Linguistic Data
Spoken as first language:
Additional remarks from the legend:
Figures for 1964 are derived from Atlas narodov Mira (Moscow 1964), p.20. Figures for Peisan and Azeri include the speakers of all their dialects listed separately in the Atlas.
Figures for 2006 are extrapolated from similar cases where the society shows comparable rates of fast urbanization, education and wealth generation with more reliable and available data than Iran.
Many more people speak Persian as their first language today than did two generations ago. Heavy migration into the cities, mass education and electronic media have all helped in linguistic assimilation of many an Iranian minority member. While, e.g., around 19% of the Iranians are ethnic Azeris, only around 13% speak Azeri as their first language. Meanwhile, the percentage of those speaking Persian as their first language, may now be not much less than the 68% claimed by the Iranian census of 2001.
Data Source: Dr. M. Izady. 2006. Linguistic Composition of Iran. In Atlas Narodov Mira, S. Bruk and V. Apenchenko, eds, (Moscow, 1964).
Contact: Dr. M. Izady, izadym
yahoo.com
Copyright Status: May be used with permission from author.
Map Description:
A map showing the linguistic composition of Iran. Please note that this map has many different layers, and that some of them overlap.
From the legend:
Linguistic Data
Spoken as first language:
| % in 1964 | % in 2004 | |
| Persian | 51.4 | 63.3 |
| Azeri | 19.3 | 13 |
| Kurdish | 8.2 | 7 |
| Gilaki | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| Gilaki | 5.8 | 3.6 |
| Mazandarani | 4.6 | 3 |
| Baluchi | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Arabic | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Turkmeni | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Qashwa'i | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| Raji | 1.2 | 1 |
| Others | 2.1 | 2 |
Additional remarks from the legend:
Figures for 1964 are derived from Atlas narodov Mira (Moscow 1964), p.20. Figures for Peisan and Azeri include the speakers of all their dialects listed separately in the Atlas.
Figures for 2006 are extrapolated from similar cases where the society shows comparable rates of fast urbanization, education and wealth generation with more reliable and available data than Iran.
Many more people speak Persian as their first language today than did two generations ago. Heavy migration into the cities, mass education and electronic media have all helped in linguistic assimilation of many an Iranian minority member. While, e.g., around 19% of the Iranians are ethnic Azeris, only around 13% speak Azeri as their first language. Meanwhile, the percentage of those speaking Persian as their first language, may now be not much less than the 68% claimed by the Iranian census of 2001.
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North Africa: Cushitic in Northern Africa
Cushitic 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.
"Afro-Asiatic: Composite 2010". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: May 2011.
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Cushitic languages are spoken today. Although there are many languages within the group, only Somali has status as an official language of a country (Somalia). Most of the languages are relatively small, being spoken by anywhere between several hundred and several thousand people (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.
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