Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Grammar
Old Nubian language - Noun. Old Nubian has no gender, nor any articles. The noun consists of a stem to which grammatical case suffixes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coptic Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Coptic Alphabet
Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages - F
Faeroese (Germanic) Fars (Iranian) Fijian Filipino Finnish (Finno-Ugric) Finnish Sign Language Fon French Créole French (Romance) Fren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - History
Makuria - Origins. The origins of Makuria are uncertain. Ptolemy mentions a Nubian people known as the Makkourae, who might be ancestor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Alphabet - History
Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Alphabet - Greek Encodings
A variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947 "Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Alphabet - Use Of The Greek Alphabet For Other Languages
The primary use of the Greek alphabet has always been to write the Greek language and related dialects (including Ancient Macedonian). Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - Religion
One of the most debated issues among scholars is over the religion of Makuria. Up to the fifth century the old faith of Meroe seems to ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Alphabet - Main Table
The Greek letters and their derivations are as follows (pronunciations transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet): For detai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - Culture
Christian Nubia was long considered something of a backwater, mainly because its graves were small and lacking the grave goods of previou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - Government
Makuria was a monarchy ruled by a king based in Dongola. The king was also considered a priest and could perform mass. [18] How successio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages - W
Waddar Wakhi (Iranian) Walloon (Romance) Waneci Wapishana Waray-Waray Washo Welsh (Celtic) West Yurghur Western Neo-Aramaic (Semitic) W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages - Y
Yaaku language Yaeyama language Yakut Yankunytjatjara language Yanomami Yanyuwa language Yapese Yaqui language Yauma language Yazdi (Ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages - X
/Xam Xhosa Xiang, (Hunanese) or (Hsiang) Xibe !Xóõ !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan) ... See also:List of languages, List of languages - A, L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages - Z
Only some major languages are listed here. See List of languages by name: Z for about 50 more. Záparo (Saparoan) Zapotec (Oto-Manguean...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - Economy
The main economic activity in Makuria was agriculture, with farmers growing several crops a year of barley, millet, and dates. The method...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Makuria: Encyclopedia Ii - Makuria - Sources
Makuria is by far the best-known kingdom of Christian Nubia, but there are still many gaps in our knowledge. The most important source fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Example Text
κτ̄κα γελγελο̄ςουανον ῑη̄ςουςι να⋊αν τρικα• δολλε πολγαρα πεςςνα• παπο...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Writing
Old Nubian is written with an uncial variety of the Greek alphabet, extended with three Coptic letters — ϣ "sh", ϩ "h", and ϭ "j" �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Example Text
κτ̄κα γελγελο̄ςουανον ῑη̄ςουςι να⋊αν τρικα• δολλε πολγαρα πεςςνα• παπο...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Writing
Old Nubian is written with an uncial variety of the Greek alphabet, extended with 3 Coptic letters - ϣ "sh", ϩ "h", and ϭ "j"- and 3 u...   » Read the article