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	Meroitic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meroitic funerary stela of Waleye son or daughter of Kadeye, from Sai, now at the British Museum.
		The Meroitic language was spoken in Meroë and the Sudan during the Meroitic period (about 300 BC-400 AD), and is now extinct.
		It is not very well understood due to the paucity of bilingual texts; the few words whose meanings have been confirmed are inadequate to determine its genetic affiliation, but some linguists have tentatively suggested that it may be Nilo-Saharan, while others see it as a language isolate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meroitic_language (126 words)

	Bahasa isolat - Wikipedia Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas berbahasa Indonesia
		Some linguists have claimed similarities with various languages of the Caucasus, especially because of its ergative case system, but the resemblances seem superficial.
		Extinct language of ancient kingdom of Meroe (Kush)
		A Palaeosiberian language spoken in the lower Amur River basin and on the Sakhalin Islands; Ainu is also spoken on Sakhalin.
	id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahasa_Isolat (313 words)

	Meroitic period
		And Egyptian language and writing were largely abandoned for official monuments and were replaced by the native Nubian language (called "Meroitic"), which was for the first time written down in newly devised hieroglyphic and cursive alphabets.
		The rulers of the Meroitic Period were contemporaries with the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Romans.
		He met and defeated a Meroitic army and drove on to Napata, which was said to have been captured and destroyed by him, and its inhabitants enslaved.
	numibia.net /nubia/meroe.htm (2230 words)

	digNubia
		The most famous examples of ancient languages that have been decoded in modern times are ancient Egyptian (with its hieroglyphic script), ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Hittite (with their cuneiform scripts), and, most recently, ancient Mayan (with its hieroglyphic script).
		He used this technique to figure out the sounds of each of the Meroitic letters, but he was able to understand the meanings of only a few of the words spelled out by these letters.
		Meroitic will remain a mystery to us until we find an African language similar enough to Meroitic to help us to understand its vocabulary or until we find an ancient object or document with the same passage written in both Meroitic and a language that we can understand.
	www.dignubia.org /bookshelf/meroitic.php (558 words)

	Meroitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meroitic is an adjective referring to things related to the kingdom of Meroe in pre-Islamic Sudan.
		The Meroitic period was approximately 300 BC to 400 AD.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meroitic (104 words)

	The Decipherment of Meroitic
		Conditions #1 and #2 were met by Griffith when he deciphered the Meroitic script in 1910, and his discovery of the proper names of the Meroitic gods and individuals in the Meroitic text.
		Alhtough this language is considered Indo-European I believe that it was used as a trade language in Central Asia to give the people of the region a common medium of exchange.
		There Meroitic empire was made up of many groups the Kusa/Kushites, Nobae, Blemmyans, Mededs and Reherahas according to Hakem and Millet(1).I beleive that the Meroites recognized the possiblity of using this trade language in Meroitic-Kush to unite the diverse people living in the region because it was not of Egyptian origin.
	geocities.com /olmec982000/kush1.htm (1540 words)

	Nubianet \| About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And written language is so important that many Western scholars divide human history into two distinct phases-pre-history, the period before written languages, and history, the period that begins with the emergence of a written language.
		The sad thing is that, while the sound values of the letters of the Meroitic alphabet are known, the meaning of the words still eludes us, for the Meroitic language ceased to be used after the fourth century A.D. and was forgotten.
		Then, by transcribing a n umber of Meroitic inscriptions, he was able to prove that Meroitic was language unlike the later Nubian language spoken in the region and different from any other known African language.
	www.halsell.net /projects/Nubia/site/about/curriculum_body1.html (823 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Meroitic Mystery: From Nubia—the land of Kush—a language lost in history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There are two kinds of Meroitic script: hieroglyphs, apparently adapted from Egypt's system, and the so-called "cursive" or demotic writing, which seems to be a distinctive Meroitic invention, though it may have been influenced by the Egyptian demotic.
		Unfortunately, the number of loan words recognizable in Meroitic was quite small, as was the number of Meroitic words surviving in Nubian, a language still spoken in the middle Nile Valley.
		Although the Meroitic scripts can be read, the language they are written in is still unknown, and until a related language is discovered, or an extensive bilingual inscription, progress will be slow.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198304/the.meroitic.mystery-from.nubia.the.land.of.kush.a.language.lost.in.history.htm (1089 words)

	THE LINGUISTIC POSITION OF MEROITIC Claude Rilly, CNRS - LLACAN (France)
		Meroitic was the language of the successive kingdoms of
		The main problem with unknown ancient languages is to find related languages, ancient or modern, which are known.
		The second stage of the work was to reconsider the relation of Meroitic with NiloSaharan and possibly to spot inside this phylum a specific family where Meroitic could belong.
	www.arkamani.org /arkamani-library/meroitic/rilly.htm (1540 words)

	Nilo-Saharan jerak.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari River and Nile rivers, including Nubia.
		Particularly controversial is the inclusion of Songhay languages.
		The extinct Meroitic language of ancient Kush has sometimes been suggested as a probable member of Nilo-Saharan; however, too little is known of the language to classify it with any confidence.
	nilo.saharan.en.jerak.org (442 words)

	Hi Ssathia
		The Meroitic inscriptions on the stela and offering tablets were written to indicate that the departed Meroite wanted to secure a blessed life in the afterworld.
		believes that the Meroitic king was probably recognized as a "trusted and privileged paramount agent of the gods than either their brother or their servant".
		On the other hand, the Meroites believed that the Good done by the deceased person during his lifetime should remain in the tomb and provide blessings to the devotee that offered libations at the grave of the departed.
	www.arkamani.org /arkamani-library/meroitic/meroitic-religion.htm (3250 words)

	Nilo-Saharan oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts.
		The Saharan languages are a subgroup of Nilo-Saharan spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to eastern Libya, central Chad, and northeastern Nigeria.
		The Fur language (Fur bèle fòòr or fòòraŋ bèle, Arabic فوراوي Fûrâwî; sometimes called Konjara by linguists, after a former ruling clan) is the language of the Fur of Darfur in western Sudan.
	nilo.saharan.en.oddd.org (6879 words)

	Untitled Document
		And Egyptian language and writing were largely abandoned and replaced by the native Nubian language (called "Meroitic"), which was for the first time written down in newly devised hieroglyphic and cursive alphabets of 23 letters.
		Obviously by Meroitic times, the Egyptian custom of burying shawabtis as servants in the tombs was abandoned, and important people reverted to the old custom of burying their real servants with them.
		He met and defeated a Meroitic army and drove on to Napata, which he is said to have captured and destroyed, enslaving its inhabitants.
	www.nubianet.org /about/about_history8.html (2398 words)

	Meroitic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Exactly when the transfer took place is not certain, either in the sixth or the fourth century B.C. It gradually became fully independent of Egyptian culture, including its language.
		The use of the Egyptian language and hieroglyphics disappeared, giving way to Meroitic, a language with both a hieroglyphic and a cursive script.
		Although the phonetic values of the 23 characters of the alphabet have been ascertained, the language has not been deciphered.
	www.crystalinks.com /meroitic.html (162 words)

	The Citizen Scientist
		I have been interested in the still undeciphered language of Meroitic since I was in college, where I taught myself to transliterate the script.
		While the correspondence was not exact, they were able to identify enough words that were clearly part of the NW semitic language family that working out the rest of the language proved relatively easy.
		This is also why learning languages becomes easier the more of them you study, especially if you study languages from the same language family.
	www.sas.org /tcs/weeklyIssues_2005/2005-07-29/backscatter (1827 words)

	Ancient Meroe:
		(B) Early Meroitic Period 270-90 BC The influence of the priests of Amun came to an end with the transfer of the royal cemetery to Meroe.
		During the reign of King Tanyidamani (110-90 BC), the oldest datable text of significant length written in the Meroitic language is found on a stela containing a detailed government report and temple endowments.
		Increasing Meroitic activity in Lower Nubia is evident and this eventually lead to a military confrontation with the Romans.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/ancient_africa.htm (2509 words)

	Meroitic script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Meroitic is an alphabetic script with 23 signs used in a hieroglyphic form (mainly on monumental art) and in a cursive form.
		It is not yet possible to connect the Meroitic language with other known languages.
		Meroitic texts are collected in the 'Repertoire d'Épigraphie Méroïtique' (short REM, a computer database in Paris, published: Leclant 2000).
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /nubia/mwriting.html (156 words)

	Meroitic Writing
		We were able to read Meroitic because these preliminary conditions were met, and we were able to develop new hypothesis based on historical evidence to determine the cognate language of Meroitic.
		Linguist to determine the relatedness of languages, and to reconstruct earlier language states uses the comparative method.
		In conclusion the multiethnic populations that lived in the Meroitic empire used the Meroitic language as a lingua franca.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/mero.htm (2678 words)

	Africa Update Archives
		A major transformation of the English language was effected during the traumatic era of the slave trade and slavery.
		That these languages have been neglected and underestimated even to the present day is due to no other fact than to the stigma of their creators being captured fl Africans.
		This was probably derived from one of the two Iberian languages, Spanish or Portuguese, either during the Spanish occupation of Jamaica fro m 1492-1655, or from the 15th century Africanization of Portuguese along the Guinea Coast.
	www.ccsu.edu /afstudy/upd4-2.html (5925 words)

	Interview with Professor Megalommatis - Part I
		In the case of the eternal enigma of the Meroitic studies, namely the question about the whereabouts of the fleeing Meroites, since the valley of the Nile from the area of Wadi Halfa down to Shendi and Khartoum seems to have suddenly emptied, there are important parameters that should be taken into consideration.
		Prof: No! I did not say either that the Meroites moved away from their homeland ‘because of Abyssinian influence’; What I said is that they left their land in order to escape forced Christianization that would be the result of king Ezana’s victory over Meroe, and destruction of the capital city of Ethiopia.
		Of course, Yemenites and Axumite Abyssinians are Semites, whereas Meroites are Kushites.
	www.voicefinfinne.org /English/Interviews/Interview_Mega3.htm (7692 words)

	digNubia
		One of the greatest mysteries yet to be solved is that of the Kushite language called Meroitic, after the city of Meroe.
		NARRATOR: The Kushites wrote their inscriptions in the Meroitic language from the third century B.C. until the fifth century A.D. While short texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphics and Meroitic script have enabled linguists to decipher the letters and pronounce the words, they still do not know what most of them mean.
		NARRATOR: To unlock the secrets of ancient Meroitic, archaeologists need to find an inscription written both in Meroitic and a language they can translate that is long enough for them to decode how the words are used and arranged.
	www.dignubia.org /galleries/transcript.php?p=2 (375 words)

	A New Look at Ancient Egypt @ UPMAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Late in Egyptian history, the language known as Coptic, the final phase of development of the ancient Egyptian language, came into being.
		The writing system for the Meroitic language of Nubia appeared around the 2nd century B.C. The alphabet consisted of a combination of hieroglyphic signs and cursive letters.
		Although the individual signs can be pronounced, the Meroitic language is still not fully understood and its texts are waiting to be deciphered and read.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/exhibits/online_exhibits/egypt/writing.shtml (620 words)

	TO BE OR NOT TO BE
		Using today’s modern language, a typical traditional African ‘democracy’ prevailed where both the supremacy of the ruler and the autonomy of the ruled groups were acknowledged.
		The languages spoken by the people in these areas will be used as an indicator of the ethnic groups.
		Slavery for hard labour was almost restricted to fl Africans; Children from non-fl communities, especially from the Caucasian regions in Central Asia, were abducted in order to be sold either for soldiery in the case of the males, or as harem in the case of the females.
	www.gurtong.com /articles/SUDAN_AT_CROSSROAD.html (15599 words)

	Ancient Nubian Queens
		This language is based upon the heiroglyphs of the Egyptians, but since no version of it is spoken today and there has not been an effective translation of the language, much of what is written in this Meroitic language remains a mystery.
		The Meroitic Period proved to be one of tremendous resistance to the forces acting on Africa at the time.
		Two reasons are generally attributed to this: First, that Nomads of the desert made travel overland difficult, and Second, that the rise of the Axumite Kingdom of Abyssinia cause a collapse of the Kushite economy.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/nubianwomen.html (2794 words)

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		The women and children have adopted a neighboring Niger-Kongo language [NE or Adamawa branch, is it Bira?] because, as they answered when interviewed, "Bor is too hard to speak!" This in spite of the fact that the glottochronologists estimate a period something like 40,000 years of differentiation between the two language groups, whatever.
		If memory serves, Meroitic was a language from Nubia and the Tocharians were IE speakers with some sort of characteristic hut recently found to have been in Mongolia.
		To support my proposition that Kushana (Tokharian) is the cognate language of Meroitic I use the scientific method which calls for hypothesis testing, not only supported by experimentation, but also that of alternative plausible hypotheses that, may place doubt on the original hypothesis.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n050 (6282 words)

	Speak Nuwaubic Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is not until 170 B.C.E. that the native language, Meroitic, was written.
		So, the term Meroitic is applied when referring to Meroe Nubia and/or it's ancient language, and more importantly the Western World has been unable to properly decipher this ancient language.
		This will be the first time in History that we will have our own language, created by one of us, which is a great accomplishment.
	www.heisinnocent.com /welcome.html (1173 words)

	SEI: Unicode Scripts Research
		Meroitic writing is written from right to left and occasionally, the hieroglyphic signs were written in columns from top to bottom.
		It is used exclusively by the Dongba (shamans/priests) as an aid to the recitation of ritual texts during religious ceremonies and shamanistic rituals.
		Use of the Naxi language and script was discouraged after the Communist victory in 1949, and they were actively suppressed during the Cultural Revolution in the 60s when thousands of manuscripts were destroyed.
	www.linguistics.berkeley.edu /sei/USR.html (7494 words)

	Meroïtic alphabet
		The hieroglyphic form of the alphabet was written in vertical columns from top to bottom and from right to left, while the cursive form was generally written in horizontal lines running from right to left.
		Meroïtic, an extinct language that was spoken in the Nile valley and northern Sudan until about the 4th century AD, after which time it was gradually replaced with Nubian.
		Linguists are unsure about how Meroïtic is related to other languages and have therefore been unable to make any sense of the Meroïtic inscriptions.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/meroitic.htm (190 words)

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