Old Nubian language
Old Nubian is an ancient variety of Nubian, attested in writing from the 8th to the 15th century (the most recent known text was written in 1485). It is ancestral to modern-day Nobiin and related to other Nubian languages such as Dongolawi. It was used throughout the medieval Christian kingdom of Makuria and its satellite Nobadia. The language is preserved in at least a hundred pages of documents, mostly of a religious nature, written using a modified form of the Coptic script; the best known is The Martyrdom of Saint Menas.
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Old Nubian language
Old Nubian is an ancient variety of Nubian, attested in writing from the 8th to the 15th century (the most recent known text was written in 1485). It is ancestral to modern-day Nobiin and related to other Nubian languages such as Dongolawi. It was used throughout the medieval Christian kingdom of Makuria and its satellite Nobadia. The language is preserved in at least a hundred pages of documents, mostly of a religious nature, written using a modified form of the Coptic script; the best known is The Martyrdom of Saint Menas.
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Altnubisch ist eine nilosahara ...... ischen betrachtet werden kann.
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L'ancien nubien est une langue ...... ne connue après le méroïtique.
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La lingua nubiana antica è una ...... conosciuta dopo il meroitico.
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O Núbio antigo é uma antiga va ...... ido é O Martírio de São Menas.
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Old Nubian is an ancient varie ...... The Martyrdom of Saint Menas.
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Древненубийский язык — вымерши ...... ели активно владеют арабским).
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Altnubisch ist eine nilosahara ...... ischen betrachtet werden kann.
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L'ancien nubien est une langue ...... ne connue après le méroïtique.
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La lingua nubiana antica è una ...... conosciuta dopo il meroitico.
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O Núbio antigo é uma antiga va ...... ido é O Martírio de São Menas.
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Old Nubian is an ancient varie ...... The Martyrdom of Saint Menas.
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Древненубийский язык — вымерши ...... ели активно владеют арабским).
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Altnubische Sprache
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Ancien nubien
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Lingua nubiana antica
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Língua núbia antiga
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Old Nubian language
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Древненубийский язык
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Old Nubian
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