An English-Nubian Comparative Dictionary
Author: George William Murray
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
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Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia
Author: Richard A. Lobban
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2003-12-09
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 0810865785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative shapes the overall history and leads to the main body of the work in the form of a cross-referenced dictionary. The descriptive entries cover the main features of the region in the various periods that are key not only to Nubian events, but also to the important interactions they had with Egypt to the north. Nine appendices and an extensive bibliography conclude this work. Lobban has been teaching Nubian studies in undergraduate classrooms for thirty years, and this book is a product of his hands-on experiences as well as extensive anthropological fieldwork and travel in Sudanese and Egyptian Nubia.
POETIC COMPARATIVE TEXTS IN NOBIIN
Author: Nubantood Khalil
Publisher: Nubantood Khalil
Published: 2024-09-23
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers poetic translations into the Nile-Nubian language (Nobiin) of renowned literary works from diverse poets worldwide. It includes introductions to the poets and explanations of key Nobiin vocabulary, aiming to bridge the gap between the original texts and readers. The book highlights the importance of poetic translation in promoting and preserving the Nobiin language spoken in Sudan and Egypt.
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Christian Nubia
Author: Richard A. Lobban Jr.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 1538133415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Christian Nubia is often a neglected period of medieval African history. Because meaning is determined largely by context this work traces the Greco-Roman, Meroitic and Jewish precursors. The regional, historical and theological schisms within Christianity are also a highlight. The dynamics of the three Nubian kingdoms of Nobatia, Mukurra, and Alwa are the centerpiece of this book that covers mural arts, architecture, and the names of the leading kings and bishops. Another strength of the book is the analysis of the 700-year baqt peace treaty between Christian Nubia and Islamic Egypt; this is considered to be the longest lasting treaty in diplomatic history. The complex transition from Christianity to Islam in the 14th century is analyzed in great personal, political, and military detail. Historical Dictionary of Medieval Christian Nubia contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture of the medieval Nubians. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Medieval Christian Nubia.
Nobiinga Kullan book(1), Beginners' level
Author: Nubantood Khalil
Publisher: Nubantood Khalil
Published: 2021-08-14
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 057824747X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a true language acquisition curriculum for the Nobiin language, an endangered Nile-Nubian language spoken in South Egypt and North Sudan. The book is part of a series for Nobiin language acquisition called "Nobiinga-Kullan." This elementary book introduces the orthography for writing Nobiin, basic description for phonology and phonetics, basic grammar lessons, and the basic vocabulary needed for communications. This book is also designed to present a standardized form of Nobiin grammar for easy learnability purposes. In addition, this book is accompanied by audio recordings that provide the needed listening practices. The main goal is to create a systematic method that helps language learners develop the four skills: writing, reading, speaking, and listening. In addition, I present this book to linguists and other scholars in Nubian studies.
Ongota
Author: Harold C. Fleming
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783447051248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA international team re-discovered a tiny tribe of hunters, first discovered a century ago in extreme southern Ethiopia but never seen again. Now dying out, Ongotan culture and language are kept alive by 20 old men who resist the pressures of two outside societies. A short description of their language and ethnography (published elsewhere) are given more fully. The examination of Ongota reveals an Afrasian (Afro-Asiatic, Hamito-Semitic) language of marked dissimilarity to its sisters in grammar and a large lexicon with links to Afrasian languages spread over large sections of Africa. Ongota clearly is in a class by itself within Afrasian, even though loan words from nearby languages muddy up the analysis. Ongotan has serious implications for Afrasian prehistory as a whole and hence the prehistory of northern and eastern Africa. Traditionally, some scholars (especially geneticists) have assumed a constant flow of culture, language, and genes from the Near East to the west and south of Africa, especially the Sahara and the Horn. With the bulk. of its deepest or oldest branches located in the Horn Afrasian must surely have expanded into the Near East from the Horn. Recent archaeology confirms this conclusion, as do palaeobotanical studies.
An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author: Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780810814783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Historical Dictionary of the Sudan
Author: Robert S. Kramer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 0810861801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republic of the Sudan was long the largest country in Africa and, according to the general consensus, also one of the least successful in many ways. This was not entirely its fault since it lay along the fault line between Muslim and Christian Africa and between the Nile Valley civilizations and African Sudanic cultures. This partly explains the long and bloody warfare waged by the Southerners to achieve independence, which they did in July 2011. So this hefty book actually covers not one but two states. This fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Sudan does so, first, through a lengthy and detailed chronology tracing its relatively few successes and numerous failures. The introductory essay does an admirable job of putting it all in perspective. But the most informative part is the dictionary, with now over 700 entries for this fourth edition. They deal with important personalities, politics, the economy, society, culture, religion and inevitably the civil war. There are also appendixes and an extensive bibliography.
Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages
Author: Robert Lewis Collison
Publisher: [New York] : Hafner Publishing Company
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotated bibliography comprising a literature survey of dictionarys of English and other languages - includes historical notes and a listing of dictionaries of technology and other specialized dictionaries, etc.
Oxford University Press
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 704
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