Cantometrics: Distribution of Interlock and Yodel in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

 

Compiled by Victor Grauer

 

 

 

Sample Size

No. Interlock

% Interlock

No. Yodel

% Yodel

Pygmies (Aka, Baka, Bedzan, Binga, Mbuti)

47

32

68%

27

57%

Twa Pygmies

4

0

0

0

0

Ju’hoansi Bushmen (including “Kung”)

21

15

71%

15

71%

“Khwe” Bushmen

6

0

0

0

0

Mikea (Madagascar)

8

4

50%

4

50%

Wayto (NW Ethiopia)

2

1

50%

0

0

All other hunter-gatherers (El Molo, Hadza, Sandawe)

10

0

0

0

0

All other groups in Sub-Saharan African

873

88

10%

44

5%

All other groups coded as interlocked

257

88

34%

24

9%