Africa only has 4, maybe 6 language families. It is linguistically less diverse than all other continentsHowever, genetically it is more diverse than anywhere else on earth. It is said a swede is more similar to an aboriginal than a nigerian is to a nilotic. Has anyone solved this paradox?
>>18280425fuck your white race bitch
only nigercongo is a real language family, the rest are just loose groupings (nilosaharan) and convenient labels (khoisan)
Languages are not ethnicities
They aren't really families relation is pretty highly contested
>>18280432Calm down, you are making us look bad.
>>18280432Calm down, saar.
>>18280425>It is said a swede is more similar to an aboriginal than a nigerian is to a nilotic.Not so.
>>18280425>It is linguistically less diverse than all other continentsWith 6? Most don't match that in terms of relative scale
>>18280425Huh???Africa like all other nigger tribesmen places has 64000 unrelated isolated languages consisting of animal grunt-like sounds and noises.Everything in this pic besides afro-asiatic is loose connections of unrelated vocalizations for the sake of simplicity
>>18280425Africa has a fuckton of isolates and like 3 of those big linguistic families are actually just very loose borderline unproven groupings.
>>18280769You really are desperate for attention.>>18280792Nilo-Saharan yeah. The others like the Niger-Congo's do have pretty notable ties. The whole grouping thing is not a matter of "is this actually a logical one or bull" but rather "which grouping works because these are all pretty viable" which is further exacerbated by long ancient migration and linguistic exchange/shifts.
>>18280425I do find it pretty remarkable how small the number of language isolates in Africa is. Like there's Sandawe, Hadza, one in Ethiopia that might be Cushitic with heavy substratum, and that's it?
>>18280425>Africa only has 4, maybe 6 language families.A lot of the families are questionable and may contain branches that aren't actually related to each other. For example, pretty much everyone agrees that Egyptian, Semitic, Berber etc are related to each other, but some people dispute whether the Omotic languages are actually related to the rest of Afro-Asiatic, and "Khoisan" is pretty much universally agreed to be at least three different families at this point.>However, genetically it is more diverse than anywhere else on earth.Language does not correspond neatly to genes. Just look at how much genetic variation there is between the peoples who speak Indo-European or Turkic languages.
>>18280949Because Greenberg lumped them all in with bigger families on flimsy evidence.
>>18280425The Bantus genocided other African groups when they expanded
>>18280425Bantu expansion displaced most pre-Bantu families, ala Indo-European in EuropeAlso there may be problems of insufficient research/classification, I'm not convinced every remote African language has been adequately classified and didn't just get lumped in with its neighbors
>>18280425Niggers in their natural habitat unironically talk in clicks and shit
>>18281302They didn't.
>>18280769Niger Congo A consider themselves West Africa Sahelien not SSA and if you call them Bantu they will put voodoo juju on you. These Wewuzers consider AfroAsiatic fake of course and on the other side you have Nafrisandnigger Arabs who considered AfroAsiatic totally Eurasian and not African. Nobody gives a fuck what Sudanese and Ethiosemite mutts think let alone zoomalis cooshite.
>>18281480Schizotypical post.
Europe has less linguistic diversity. Almost all one family, small patches of Uralic, only three other families each represented by a single language spoken in a tiny area
>>18281482Ok correct me than fag and post any West African who likes the term SSA.
>>18281480wtf did I just read
>>18281410You're right, the Central and South African HGs escaped Samsara
>>18281544>tfw I go to agartha and it is full of African pygmies
>>18280425>Has anyone solved this paradox?what paradox? the bantu expansion fucked up the linguistic diversity,.
