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Figure 19.2. Language families of Africa.
defined human groups: languages of a given language family tend to be
spoken by distinct people. In particular, Afroasiatic speakers mostly prove
to be people who would be classified as whites or blacks, Nilo-Saharan
and Niger-Congo speakers prove to be blacks, Khoisan speakers Khoisan,
and Austronesian speakers Indonesian. This suggests that languages have
tended to evolve along with the people who speak them.