Jabal al-Lughat

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...

Searching Shamela , I recently realised that the earliest references to a language of (al-)Barbar in Arabic go back further than I had assu...

When I wrote my paper on the Arabic dialect of Dellys a couple of decades ago, I described it as using the participle "going (to)"...

While Spengler is better known for his efforts (in Decline of the West ) to establish a historical morphology of cultures, he also briefly b...