Indigenous names for the continent

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Indigenous names for the continent

Posted by Peregrine on Wed, 04 Jan 2006, in response to source of the word "Africa", posted by Ian on Sat, 20 Sep 2003

Well it's unlikely that that many autocthonic languages would have names for the continent as a whole but rather for the immediate region; which it would be important to distiguish from the regions controlled by surrounding peoples. Defining the super-region or continent only becomes important with significant contact with people from outside it.

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