The Old Nubian Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781947447189)

Eugenia Smagina first published her grammar of the Old Nubian language in 1986 in Russian. For more than thirty years the work has remained untranslated, even though the late Gerald M. Browne affirmed that "this lucid, well-argued presentation should be available to all Nubiologists and ought therefore be translated into a western language."Slavicist Jose Andres Alonso de la Fuente has prepared a first English translation of this concise but indispensable work, which forms a necessary counterpart to Browne's classical Old Nubian Grammar. The grammar is divided into sections on script, lexicon, morphology, and syntax, and is followed by the analysis of a sample text, known as The Miracle of St. Menas.Smagina's The Old Nubian Language provides an excellent first introduction into the grammar of this medieval Nilo-Saharan language.

Author: Eugenia Smagina, Attiri Collective
ISBN-10: 1947447181
ISBN-13: 9781947447189
Publisher: Punctum Books
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2017
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.17d