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Old Nubian Crash Course - NubiaFEST2020
Playlist with five lessons on ancient Nubian given by Vincent van Gerven Oei at NubiaFEST 2020. Lesson 1 covers the history of the language and writing system; lesson 2 nominal sentences; lesson 3 number, predication, and person; lesson 4 verb and lesson 5 sentences and subordinates.
Texts
KHALIL, M., MILLER, C., Old Nubian and Language Uses in Nubia, 1996
Paper by M. Khalil e C. Miller published in Égypte/Monde arabe 27-28 (1996)
OCHAŁA, G., Multilingualism in Christian Nubia: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, 2014
Paper by Grzegorz Ochała in Dotawo 1 (2014)
VAN GERVEN OEI, V., Remarks toward a Revised Grammar of Old Nubian, 2014
Paper by Vincent van Gerven Oei in Dotawo 1 (2014)
SMAGINA, E.B., The Old Nubian Language, 2017
English translation of the Grammar of Ancient Nubian by Eugenia B. Smagina, originally published in Russian in 1986, but still relevant today.
VAN GERVEN OEI, V., Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian, 2018
Article by young scholar Vincent van Gerven Oei, very active in the research field on ancient Nubian and in open-access publishing, in Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics 3.1 (2018).
VAN GERVEN OEI, A Note on the Old Nubian Morpheme -ⲁ in Nominal and Verbal Predicates
Dans ŁAJTAR, A., OCHAŁA, G., VAN DER VLIET, J., Nubian Voices II: New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture, 2015, pp. 313-34.