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Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt

Author : Aleya Rouchdy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900434831X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt by : Aleya Rouchdy

Download or read book Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt written by Aleya Rouchdy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The displacement of the Egyptian Nubians from their ancient lands and their resettlement deeper in the land of Egypt in 1964 had an impact on Nubian culture and the Nubian language. Contemporary Egyptian Nubian consists of two dialects, Fadicca and Matoki. After the resettlement of Nubians, the interactions between speakers of the two Nubian dialects and speakers of Arabic increased. Nubian, an East Sudanic language, came into contact with a dominant Semitic language, Arabic. How has this increased contact affected the Nubian language in Egypt? The aim of this work is to examine from the perspective of a 'language-contact situation' the impact of the resettlement on the future of the Nubian language. The comparative data on the Nubian situation will add an important contribution to our fund of knowledge on processes of language contact. This is the first sociolinguistic study of the Nubian language from such a perspective.

Nubian (Nobiin) Language and Grammar Book 1

Author : Nuraddin Abdulmannan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Nubian (Nobiin) Language and Grammar Book 1 written by Nuraddin Abdulmannan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Arab invasion of Sudan and destruction of the last Nubian Kingdom of Aludia (Alwa) seated at Soba its capital, overran by an alliance of Arab tribes and the Funj in 1505 CE Nubian language was intentionally marginalized and the writing of the Nubian language stopped ever since..To save the Nubian language from extinction we Nubians have launched a campaign to urge UNESCO, Egypt, Sudan, the international community, universities, and human rights organizations, and all relevant entities to support our campaign to rescue the oldest living written language In Africa. Rewriting the Nubian language, literature and grammar will help in protecting the Nubian cultures as well as their antiquities, artifacts, and monuments from destruction and cultural cleansing and will bring attention to other indigenous people to save their languages and cultures from extinction. This book will help readers to learn the Nubian language and grammar and know more about a very beautiful language spoken by millions of Nubians in Egypt and Sudan who are fighting to save their language and culture. This book is in support of UNESCO's campaign dedicating the decade of Indigenous languages from 2022 to 2032..

Handbook of Ancient Nubia

Author : Dietrich Raue
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110420384
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Ancient Nubia by : Dietrich Raue

Download or read book Handbook of Ancient Nubia written by Dietrich Raue and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights. The contributions to this handbook illuminate our current understanding of the cultural history of this fascinating region, including its interconnections to the natural world.

Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium

Author : Gerald M. Browne
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789068319255
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium by : Gerald M. Browne

Download or read book Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium written by Gerald M. Browne and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises three appendices to the same author's Old Nubian Dictionary (CSCO 556, Subs. 90; 1996). The first deals with the emphatic particles -lo/-lo, -sin and -so/-so and provides for each a catalogue of examples followed by a commentary describing the usage. The second appendix, intended to facilitate the editing of damaged texts, is a reverse index of all the words entered in the Dictionary. The third furnishes addenda et corrigenda to M.M. Khalil's published Worterbuch der nubischen Sprache (Fadidja/Mahas-Dialekt) and supplements the cognates cited in the Dictionary. Like the Dictionary, this volume of appendices should be of interest to all who work in the area of Christian Africa. The author is Professor of the Classics and Linguistics in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and is recognized as the world's leading authority on Old Nubian.

A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian

Author : van Gerven Oei
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9789042941854
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)

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Book Synopsis A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian by : van Gerven Oei

Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian written by van Gerven Oei and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar provides a novel and detailed overview of Old Nubian, an extinct Nilo-Saharan language written in the Nubian kingdom of Makuria between the 8th and 15th centuries CE. Including more than 700 glossed examples sourced from manuscripts and inscriptions covering the entire written record, this standard work treats Old Nubian syntax, topic/focus constructions, subordination and coordination, verbal morphology including person, aspect, tense, pluractionality, affirmation, and negation, nominal morphology, derivation, and phonology. The grammar is aimed both at scholars working in the fields of Nubiology, Egyptology, and Near Eastern Studies curious to gain a better understanding of one of the lesser studied languages from the medieval period, and linguists interested in one of the few historical languages of which written records have survived on the African continent.

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia

Author : Geoff Emberling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190496274
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia by : Geoff Emberling

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia written by Geoff Emberling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement, economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic, and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.

Medieval Nubia

Author : Giovanni R. Ruffini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996202
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Nubia written by Giovanni R. Ruffini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the few surviving archaeological sites from the medieval Christian kingdom of Nubia, Qasr Ibrim is critically important in a number of ways. It is the only site in Lower Nubia that remained above water after the completion of the Aswan high dam. In addition, thanks to the aridity of the climate in the area, the site is marked by extraordinary preservation of organic material, especially textual material written on papyrus, leather, and paper. Particularly rich is the textual material from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, written in Old Nubian, the region's indigenous language. As a result, Qasr Ibrim is probably the best documented ancient and medieval site in Africa outside of Egypt and the Maghreb. Medieval Nubia is the first book to make available this remarkable material, much of which is still unpublished. The evidence discovered reveals a more complicated picture of this community than originally thought. Previously, it was accepted that medieval Nubia had existed in relative isolation from the rest of the world, subsisting on a primitive economy. Legal documents, accounts, and letters, however, reveal a complex, monetized economy with exchange rates connected to those of the wider world. Furthermore, they reveal public festive practices, in which lavish feasting and food gifts reinforced the social prestige of the participants. These documents prove medieval Nubia to have been a society combining legal elements inherited from the Greco-Roman world with indigenous African social practices. In reconstructing the social and economic life of medieval Nubia based on the Old Nubian sources from the site, as well as other previously examined materials, Giovanni R. Ruffini corrects previous assumptions and provides a new picture of Nubia, one that links it to the wider Mediterranean economy and society of its time.

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

Author : Rainer Vossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199609896
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of African Languages by : Rainer Vossen

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African Languages written by Rainer Vossen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une source inconnue indique : "This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."

Dongola

Author : Idrīs ʻAlī
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557285317
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Dongola by : Idrīs ʻAlī

Download or read book Dongola written by Idrīs ʻAlī and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his character's pain and suffering, Idris Ali paints in vibrant detail, with wit and a keen sense of history's absurdities, the story of cultures and hearts divided, of lost lands - impossible dreams, and abandoned loves.

Aksum and Nubia

Author : George Hatke
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476066X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Aksum and Nubia written by George Hatke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.

The Nubi Language of Kibera

Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nubi Language of Kibera written by Bernd Heine and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The (Hi)story of Nobiin

Author : Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631614945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The (Hi)story of Nobiin written by Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not often that we can observe language change in a language over a period of more than one thousand years. Nobiin-Nubian is the only language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum amongst African languages where this is possible. This book analyzes processes of language change and grammaticalization in this language based on textual evidence from Old Nobiin, written between the 8th and the 15th century, as well as from Modern Nobiin. At the same time the study of the non-religious texts in Old Nobiin gives new insights into history, culture and society of Medieval Nubia. As so far most of the work on Old Nobiin has been done by classical scholars and the texts are available only in non-transcribed and non-segmented form, the numerous examples from the texts may serve to interest scholars with different backgrounds for the interesting subject of language change in Nobiin as well as the medieval history of Nubia.

The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia

Author : Derek A. Welsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia written by Derek A. Welsby and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nubia had a rich pagan heritage, stretching back thousands of years. During probably the 6th century AD various factors led to the adoption of Christianity. This book charts this huge cultural transition and its impact.

Ancient Nubia

Author : Marjorie M. Fisher
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649033974
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Nubia written by Marjorie M. Fisher and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan and named a 2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration. Over the past century, particularly during this last generation, scholars have begun to focus more attention on the fascinating cultures of ancient Nubia, ironically prompted by the construction of large dams that have flooded vast tracts of the ancient land. This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and thereby to give us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.

The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia

Author : Jacques van der Vliet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351133454
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia by : Jacques van der Vliet

Download or read book The Christian Epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia written by Jacques van der Vliet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Studies CS1070 The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even texts on luxury garments. Whereas earlier scholars in the field of Coptic Studies often focused on either Coptic or Greek, Van der Vliet argues that inscriptions in different languages that appear in the same space or on the same kind of objects should be examined together. In addition, he aims to combine the information from documentary texts, archaeological remains and inscriptions, in order to reconstruct the economic, social and religious life of monastic or civil communities. He practiced this methodology in his studies on the Fayum, Wadi al-Natrun, Sohag, Western Thebes and the region of Aswan and Northern Nubia, which are all included in this book.

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

Author : Claude Rilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560530
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Meroitic Language and Writing System written by Claude Rilly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. In addition to providing a full history of the script and an analysis of the phonology, grammar and linguistic affiliation of the language it features: linguistic analyses for those working on Nilo-Saharan comparative linguistics, paleographic tables useful to archaeologists for dating purposes and an overview of texts that can be translated or understood by way of analogy for those working on Nubian religion, history and archaeology.

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Author : Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800412320
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa written by Leketi Makalela and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.