Language Families of Africa

AFRO-ASIATIC
 
     Semitic
          East Semitic:  þAkkadian (Assyrian, Babylonian)
          Central Semitic:  Arabic, þCanaanite > Hebrew,
               þPhoenician, Aramaic (Syriac, "Assyrian")
          South Semitic: South Arabian, þGe'ez, Tigrinya,
               Amharic, Gurage, Harari

     Chadic
          West Chadic: Hausa, many others
          Biu-Mandara: Tera, Bura, Mandara, Sukur, etc.
          East Chadic: Somrai, Nacere, Kera, Sokoro, etc.
          Masa

     Cushitic: Somali, Iraqw, Mbugu, Janjero, Kamir, Bedauye,
          many others

     Egyptian: þAncient Egyptian > þCoptic

     Berber: Berber, Tuareg, Tamazight, probably Guanche, other
          languages of North Africa


NILO-SAHARAN
     Songhai
     Saharan: Kanuri, Daza, etc.
     Fur
     Chari-Nile
          Nubian
          Barea, Nyima, Temein, etc.
          Nilotic: Shilluk, Dinka, Nuer, Turkana, Maasai, etc.


KHOISAN

Sandawe, Hatsa, etc.


NIGER-KHORDOFANIAN
     Benue-Congo
          Plateau
          Jukun
          Benue-Cross: Bamileke, Efik, etc.
          Bantu: Zulu, Shona, Buganda, Kinyarwanda, etc.
     Kwa: Kru, Ewe, Igbo, Ijo, Yoruba, Akan, Nupe, etc.
     Mande: Mande, Bambara, Dyula, Kpelle, etc.
     Atlantic: Fulani, Wolof, Temne, etc.
     Gur: Senufo, Dogon, etc.
     Adamawan: Adamawa, Gbaya, etc.
     Khordofanian