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The old Nubian language / Eugenia B. Smagina ; translated by José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smagina, E. B. (Evgenii︠a︡ Borisovna), author.
- Series:
- Dotawo monographs ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Nubia--Languages.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2017
- [Santa Barbara, California] ; Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Eugenia Smagina (Евгeния Б. Смaгина) 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 José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente has prepared a first English translation of this concise but indispensable work, which forms a necessary counterpart to Browne’s classic 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. Mēnas. Smagina’s The Old Nubian Language provides an excellent first introduction into the grammar of this medieval Nilo-Saharan language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on electronic version of record (viewed on June 9th, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: ‡z 9781947447189
- ISBN:
- 1-947447-19-X
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