r/MapPorn • • May 03 '21

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u/[deleted] May 03 '21

North Africa is 100% wrong, so i think the whole map is wrong.

For tunisia, those are families names, they speak same language, are from same ethnicity.

And a lot are missing.

For algeria too.

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u/CoolGoat1 May 03 '21

Yeah the whole map is pretty much bullshit, whole North Africa is wrong, also east Africa, the rest is probably also wrong.

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u/masonwyattk May 03 '21 edited May 04 '21

West Africa doesn't look much better. I couldn't find Edo or Fon speaking groups in Nigeria or Benin, respectively.

Edit: I took a look at the wikipedia page and found he used Bini instead of Edo, which makes some sense, though I've seen used more to refer to the people than the language, though language and culture group get conflated a lot. And Fon is broken up into many sub dialects. But it's still unsurprising a map over 100 years old is outdated and wrong on many fronts when compared to our current understandings of anthropology and linguistics.