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  1. In Glosbe you will find translations from English into Old Nubian coming from various sources. The translations are sorted from the most common to the less popular. We make every effort to ensure that each expression has definitions or information about the inflection.

    • Water

      aman, ⲁⲙⲁⲛ, ⲁⲥⲥⲉ are the top translations of "water" into...

    • One

      Wera, ouer-are the top translations of "one" into Old...

    • Endangered Language
    • This Is How We Write Nubian
    • Codifying Nubian Orthography

    Nobiin belongs to the family of Nubian languages spoken in Sudan and southern Egypt. And it’s a close relative of Old Nubian, a literary language written in the Nubian kingdoms of Nobadia and Makuria from around the 8th century up to the 15th century, Vincent WJ van Gerven Oei, a philologist specialising in Old Nubian based in The Hague, tells MEE....

    Having teamed up with Mitchell, the publisher and founder of Taras Press, and K. Eltinae, a Sudanese poet of Nubian descent, Dawoud and Eujayl are now carrying on the work of Kabbara and others involved in the revival of the Nubian alphabet to write Nubian scripts and the preservation of the Nobiin Nubian language. With the help of Taras Press, the...

    With the publication of the books, the team first aims to expand the small genre of Nubia-related and Nubian-language literature for children, in what they see as a key step to help preserve the language. “My hope is to provide that kind of thing that was missing for other generations, because the children in the past did not have Nubian children's...

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  3. Apr 21, 2023 · In just two generations the language, once widely spoken, has almost vanished. In her village, a datefarming community on the Nile, “the youngest who speak Nubian are 61 or 62. It is becoming extinct,” said Ashraf.

  4. With Nubians having been largely Arabized, usage of Nubian has been continuously eroding. At TranslationServices.com, we recognize the tragedy in letting these culturally and historically precious languages fade away, so we put together our own Nubian translation team. Thinking about Nubian translation services?

  5. Jan 29, 2020 · With the aim of reviving the almost demolished Nubian language, Amberkab started theKoma Waidi.” “Koma Waidi”, which is Nubian for Tales of the Past, is an individual initiative seeking...

  6. Since the 1960s, there has been continuous forced migration of the Nubian people, and the resulting loss of their homeland has directly caused the severe endangerment of their toponymy and its related socio-cultural knowledge.

  7. Arabic has been the primary language of the Nubian people since the flooding in the 1960s displaced so many of them to Cairo and Alexandria and away from their traditional villages where Nubian was spoken.

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