Meroitic inscription (1st century BC), Egyptian Museum of Berlin
Native to
Kingdom of Kush
Region
Southern part of Upper Egypt around Aswan (Lower Nubia) to the Khartoum area of Sudan (Upper Nubia).
Era
Possibly attested as early as 12th Dynasty Egypt (ca. 2000–ca. 1800 BC) and fully extinct no later than the 6th century AD
Language family
Unclassified (possibly Nilo-Saharan or Afroasiatic)
Writing system
Meroitic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xmr
Linguist List
xmr
Glottolog
mero1237
The Meroitic language (/mɛroʊˈɪtɪk/) was spoken in Meroë (in present-day Sudan) during the Meroitic period (attested from 300 BC) and became extinct about 400 AD. It was written in two forms of the Meroitic alphabet: Meroitic Cursive, which was written with a stylus and was used for general record-keeping; and Meroitic Hieroglyphic, which was carved in stone or used for royal or religious documents. It is poorly understood, owing to the scarcity of bilingual texts.
The Meroiticlanguage (/mɛroʊˈɪtɪk/) was spoken in Meroë (in present-day Sudan) during the Meroitic period (attested from 300 BC) and became extinct about...
The Meroitic script consists of two alphasyllabic scripts developed to write the Meroiticlanguage at the beginning of the Meroitic Period (3rd century...
pre-Islamic Sudan Meroitic alphabet Meroiticlanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Meroitic. If an internal link led you...
BC, there was a separate Meroitic writing system. The language was written in two forms of the Meroitic alphabet: Meroitic Cursive, which was written...
(Wiktionary) Meroiticlanguage Mous (2012), pp. 343–345. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2021). "Oromo". Ethnologue: Languages of...
ISBN 978-1-4129-3636-1. Rilly, Claude; Voogt, Alex de (2012). The MeroiticLanguage and Writing System. Cambridge University Press. p. 185. ISBN 9781139560535...
during the pre-literate era. Rilly, Claude; de Voogt, Alex (2012). The MeroiticLanguage and Writing System. Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-139-56053-5...
related to the written ancient languages known from its area, Meroitic or Old Nubian. The oldest text in a Cushitic language probably dates from around 1770;...
Afroasiatic languages." It is also uncertain to which language family the ancient Meroiticlanguage is related. Kirsty Rowan suggests that Meroitic, like the...
Retrieved 25 January 2023. Claude Rilly (2011). Recent Research on Meroitic, the Ancient Language of Sudan. http://www.ityopis.org/Issues-1_files/ITYOPIS-I-Rilly...
(620 mi). People of the Meroitic period preserved many ancient Egyptian customs but were unique in many respects. The Meroiticlanguage was spoken in Meroë...
Egypt. Numidian language (although the script, Libyco-Berber, has been almost fully deciphered, the language has not). Meroiticlanguage, c. 300 BC to 400...
Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, qore and kandake"). Meroitic, the indigenous language of the kingdom of Kush, remains undeciphered; however, inscriptions...
Nobiin, which he relates to the Meroitic. Approaching the inherited proto-Nubian vocabulary in all Nubian languages systematically through a comparative...
Saï, in Lower Nubia, Cushitic languages were spoken and much later replaced by Meroitic. It is posited that early Meroitic spread, displacing Eastern Sudanic...
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or Apademak (likely pronounced Abedemak in Meroitic because of the absence of the phoneme /P/ in Meroitic) was a major deity in the ancient Nubian and...
Oxyrhynchite. The Meroiticlanguage and its writing system was used in Meroë and the wider Kingdom of Kush (in modern day Sudan) during the Meroitic period. It...
support of this, as the linguistic relationship of Nubian languages with the Meroiticlanguage is still debated. Nevertheless, historians like Brown (The...
Kingdom of Kush spoke the Meroiticlanguage, from 300 BCE to 400 CE. Inscribed in the Meroitic alphabet or hieroglyphics, the language is poorly understood...
which became ⲎⲤⲈ (Ēse) in the Coptic form of Egyptian, Wusa in the Meroiticlanguage of Nubia, and Ἶσις, on which her modern name is based, in Greek. The...
indigenous elements were also used and became increasingly prominent in the Meroitic period (c. 270 BCE–350 CE). There are no preserved Kushite lists of rulers...
armlets and ring plates. Rilly, Claude; Voogt, Alex de (2012). The MeroiticLanguage and Writing System. Cambridge University Press. p. 185. ISBN 9781139560535...
Tanzania. Nubian (and possibly Meroitic) gives Eastern Sudanic some of the earliest written attestations of African languages. However, the largest branch...
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