Maps of Huautla-Mazatlán Masateko

Oto-Mangean in Contemporary Meso-America



Oto-Mangean in Contemporary Meso-America

Map Creator:   The LINGUIST List
Data Sources:  
The LINGUIST List. 2008. Oto-Manguean: Composite 2008. The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages. 57. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Created:   Jun-2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Oto-Mangean languages are spoken today. Although there is some contention over whether to include Amusgo and Trike in the Mistekan branch, they have been included here. Oto-Mangean is presented as a stock, in the same order as Indo-European (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary Meso-American Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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.

Oto-Mangean in Meso-America at the Time of Contact



Oto-Mangean in Meso-America at the Time of Contact

Map Creator:   The LINGUIST List
Data Sources:  
The LINGUIST List. 2008. Oto-Manguean: Composite 2008. The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages. 57. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Created:   Jun-2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Oto-Mangean subgroup languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified by Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Kaufman 2007).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Meso-America at the Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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.

Peoples, States and Cities in northern Africa ca. 1550 (Ehret)



Peoples, states and cities in the northern half of Africa, ca. 1550

Map Creator:   Christopher Ehret
Source:   The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. 2002. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Date Created:   2002.

Map Description:
Shown here are important kingdoms, groups and cities in northern Africa around 1550. Important details of the period include the fate of the large Songay Empire, the expansion of the kingdom of Morocco and European colonization. The Songay Empire suffered from internal political turmoil and degenerated into civil war in the 1580s as it collapsed. Meanwhile, the kingdom of Morocco was growing in power, and steady trade with Europeans provided them with superior weapons, allowing them to expand further as they conquered former Songay lands. European colonial powers vied for forts and trade agreements along the Atlantic coast, although large settlements were rare (Ehret).


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Peoples, States and Cities in northern Africa ca. 1750-1770 (Ehret)



Peoples, states and cities in the northern half of Africa, ca. 1750-1775

Map Creator:   Christopher Ehret
Source:   2002. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Date Created:   2002.

Map Description:
This map outlines several of the important African kingdoms and empires, as well as groups of people, in northern Africa circa 1750-1770 (Ehret). During this time, European influence on the continent was widespread; trade and conquest were flourishing under the colonial powers. In the east, Ottoman Empire power was beginning to fail in Egypt, and many of the Arab groups that had once been under their rule broke away. Along the Atlantic coast, many of those involved with European trade prospered, especially Morocco.


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).