A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian

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.