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4 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 ...
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- ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.
- Proposed language family
5 days ago · Map 2: Colonial Languages. Map 2 (found below) shows languages that were introduced to Africa when Africa was colonized by European countries. During this time, several European countries took control of territories in Africa that they claimed for themselves. Some regions had more than one European country that claimed them at various points in ...
5 days ago · 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 ...
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2 days ago · The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian (r n km.t) is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century.
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- Ancient Egyptians
- Upper? †, Lower? †, Coptic dialects †
- Afro-Asiatic, Egyptian
