Maps of Elamite

Later Dispersal of Afroasiatic (Blench)



The Later Dispersal of Afroasiatic

Map Creator:   Roger Blench
Source:   Archeology, Language, and the African Past. 2006. Lanham: AltaMira Press. p. 160.
Date Created:   2006 (Blench)

Map Description:
This map illustrates the later locations and migrations of several African language groups, including the Semitic, Bantu, Nilotic, Berber, Afroasiatic and Chadic speakers, as discussed by Roger Blench. Combined with his map entitled "The Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic", it presents a model which explains the distribution of Afroasiatic languages prior to the Arabic expansion beginning in the seventh century. Two of the languages indicated, Guanche and Elamitic, are extinct; Blench notes that the arrow marking the latter's progress is very uncertain.

Other resources related to this project:
Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic (Blench)
The Inter-Saharan Hypothesis (Blench)


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Middle East: Languages of the Ancient Middle East (Cambridge Encyclopedia)


Languages of the Middle East between the 3rd and 1st Millenium BC.

Map Creator(s):   The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient languages, and other sources.
Source:   Woodard, Roger (ed). 2004. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Date Created:   10 Oct 2008

Description:
This map is an extract of information in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient languages, showing languages spoken towards the end of the 1st Millennium BC in Anatolia and surrounding areas.

Editor's Note:
The coastline in the northern Arabian Gulf has changed dramatically since the period shown, and is far south of where it was. Thus Sumerian on a modern base-map will seem far inland, when it fact it reached to the sea.



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