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Today's thread follows the historical linguistics to the present. As discussed, Nubia has a long & rich history of writing, starting w/ Meroitic script, before Old Nubian writing rose to dominance in the 6-15th C.
But what about today? How has Nubian writing been kept alive?
1/22
But what about today? How has Nubian writing been kept alive?
1/22
Well, the truth is, for the longest time, Nubian script had gone more or less extinct (as far as we know, anyway). Writing in Nubia, as is the case with many world cultures, was closely tied with religion, and religious change usually meant script change.
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2/22
The Meroitic writing system, based on Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic, corresponded to a period of history where Nubians and Egyptians shared a religion. Old Nubian, primarily based on Greek, corresponded to the Christian era of Nubia.
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3/22
Threads on the Nubian alphabet.
#Nubian
#NubianScribes
#Nobiin
#Andaandi
#SudaneseCulture
#Egypt
#BlackHistory
"History of the Nubian Alphabet" (English):
#Nubian
#NubianScribes
#Nobiin
#Andaandi
#SudaneseCulture
#Egypt
#BlackHistory
"History of the Nubian Alphabet" (English):
"How to Write The Nubian Alphabet" (English):
Soon after I moved to #NYC in 2002, I began a relationship with a Black man. We lived together for 3yrs. Very soon after we became a couple, I insisted we boycott Arab (Yemeni, I believe) owned stores in our neighbourhood because of their anti-Black racism.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
The men behind the counter in those stores didn’t know I speak Arabic. And when Marcus and I would go in together, they would say the most disgusting racist shit about Black men and why I was with a Black man. I confronted them. Shamed them. And boycotted them. #BlackLivesMatter
After one yelling match with them, I reminded them that post-9/11, Arabs or Muslims who knew what being profiled or being subjected to discrimination and violence was like, should be the last people to be racist.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
Daoism and Ancient Egypt:
"Early European writings on Daoism such as Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata (1667), characterized it as “full of abominable falsehoods” and as originating in a form of idolatry transferred from ancient Egypt."
esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/Dao.h…
"Early European writings on Daoism such as Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata (1667), characterized it as “full of abominable falsehoods” and as originating in a form of idolatry transferred from ancient Egypt."
esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/Dao.h…
Chinese bronzes linked to Egypt and Africa:
insidehook.com/article/histor…
1. "Sun noticed that a particular set of artifacts, the Yin-Shang bronzes, shared a greater similarity in their chemical composition with metals from Egypt than Chinese ones."
insidehook.com/article/histor…
1. "Sun noticed that a particular set of artifacts, the Yin-Shang bronzes, shared a greater similarity in their chemical composition with metals from Egypt than Chinese ones."
2. "Among the earliest Chinese bronzes known to archeologists, the Ying-Shang wares are the only ones of their kind to contain lead isotopes akin to samples from areas in South Africa and Zimbabwe."
