Full Description
This reference grammar provides a novel and detailed overview of Old
Nubian, an extinct Nilo-Saharan language written in the Nubian kingdom
of Makuria between the 8th and 15th centuries CE. Including more than
700 glossed examples sourced from manuscripts and inscriptions covering
the entire written record, this standard work treats Old Nubian syntax,
topic/focus constructions, subordination and coordination, verbal
morphology including person, aspect, tense, pluractionality,
affirmation, and negation, nominal morphology, derivation, and
phonology. The grammar is aimed both at scholars working in the fields
of Nubiology, Egyptology, and Near Eastern Studies curious to gain a
better understanding of one of the lesser studied languages from the
medieval period, and linguists interested in one of the few historical
languages of which written records have survived on the African
continent.
