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2 days ago · The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to ...
- None
- ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.
- Proposed language family
1 day ago · Makuria ( Old Nubian: ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ, Dotawo; Greek: Μακουρία, romanized : Makouria; Arabic: المقرة, romanized : al-Muqurra) was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Its capital was Dongola (Old Nubian: Tungul) in the fertile Dongola Reach, and the kingdom is sometimes known by the name ...
- Gold, Solidus, Dircham
2 days ago · Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Timetremǹkhēmi) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, [2] representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, [2] [4] and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. [1] Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the ...
- Bohairic, Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Fayyumic, Oxyrhynchite
- Coptic alphabet
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The ancient Egyptian language was spoken into the Islamic period. It was gradually replaced by Arabic beginning in the 7th century, a process that took centuries. Persian was not used much (if at all) as a spoken language in Achaemenid Egypt, nor is it widely attested as a written language, though there are a few multilingual monumental ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Nubia, on the other hand, was mostly fighting back to maintain or regain independence from Egypt. Yet, on some occasions, Nubia was powerful, which somewhat matched some of Egypt’s weakest periods so it attempted to conquer Egypt. On one of these occasions, precisely in 747 BC, Nubia succeeded in dominating Upper Egypt.
May 8, 2024 · Upper Egypt is the strip of land on both sides of the Nile that extends between Nubia and downriver (northwards) to Lower Egypt. It is the southernmost portion of Egypt. Ancient Egypt was huge – more than 386,662 square miles, which was just over 384,345 square miles of land and about 2,316 square miles of water. It’s a desert, with hot and ...
May 9, 2024 · The museum contains a variety of monumental objects from different parts in Egypt, collected in Nubia during the first half of the twentieth century. 1. The reconstructed rock-cut shrine of Usersatet from Qasr Ibrim. 2. A mummified ram of Khnum with a gold mask from the Temple of Khnum on Elephantine. 3.
