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Map showing the approximate distribution of the four African language families. Indo-European, in the form of Afrikaans, is quite widespread in the southern tip of Africa but it has been omitted here for clarity.

This map is the basic map of the African language families series. Other maps in this series:

• Afro-Asiatic
• Nilo-Saharan
• Niger-Congo
• Khoi-San
• African language families (with some examples of major languages)

Sources include

• Heine, Bernd & Derek Nurse (eds.) (2000) African languages: an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stroomer, Harry (2002) In de schaduw van het Arabisch : over niet-arabische talen en culturen in Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten. Inaugural oration, Leiden University.
• Webb, Vic and Kembo-Sure (eds.) (1998) African Voices. An introduction to the languages and linguistics of Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa.
• Kohler 1976 Khoi-San map (S.D.C.G. Laboratoire de Carthographie Thématique. PARIS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.) [1]
• TITUS
• SIL-based maps

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