Jabal al-Lughat

Going through some old papers, I found some notes on Dellys dialect that I had taken years ago from Amti Khira; better to put them up (mainl...

Every time I go to Algeria, I come back with some linguistic observations that are new to me (if not necessarily to anyone else.) Here are t...

The metaphorical identification of heads with gourds is probably obvious enough to arise spontaneously anywhere that gourds are in regular u...

This is basically a note to myself, and may be updated. Eastern Sudanic is generally taken to embrace most of the languages of Sudan, inclu...

Thomas Anour has posted a number of Bible extracts: Mark 10:13-18 , John 1:1-13 , and James 4:1-3 . Comparing these to a published translati...

The least well documented subgroup of West Nilotic is the Burun group , spoken around the borders between Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. ...

In the mid-14th century work Bughyat al-ruwwād fī dhikr il-mulūk min banī ʕAbd al-Wād , Yaḥyā Ibn Khaldūn (brother of the more famous Ibn K...