Whites would form a bloc, and blacks would be in different tribal and geographic groupings.
"Abenaki" is a linguistic and geographic grouping; historically there was not a strong central authority, but as listed below a large number of smaller bands and tribes who shared many cultural traits.
The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of half a dozen language families spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan Province, Sudan.
Besides the traditional geographic grouping described previously, there are a few comparatively based subgroupings of the Athabaskan languages.
For the remainder of this article the conventional three-way geographic grouping will be followed except as noted.
However, rather than placing them in a geographic grouping, as Matisoff does, van Driem leaves them unclassified.
To understand the problem, it is necessary to understand that almost all committee memberships at the United Nations are divided among geographic groupings.
Each of the 10 seats is apportioned among geographic groupings, like Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
It is now used in a more general way to refer to the geographic, economic and cultural grouping of the three countries.
This is a purely geographic grouping and makes no claims about the relatedness of the languages to each other as compared with other Indo-European languages.