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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] The majority of ancient Egyptians probably spoke Niger-Congo languages--not Nilo-Saharan. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dH3ZETZ8ZlM/SBSan7YuqbI/AAAAAAAAAHk/-343iErUM-Q/s400/Noba.gif[/IMG] . I don't believe Nubian speakers lived in ancient Egypt. They probably entered Nubia in Roman times , since they were not related to the Kushites or Egyptians. The Nubians or Nobatai lived in the area from Aswan to Maharraqa called the Dodekaschoenas which was first under the rule of the Ptolemies and later the Romans. Most researchers believe that by 200 BC most of the region was occupied by Nubians. Ptolemy, noted that in the mid-2nd Century AD that the Nubae lived on the Westside of the Nile, and that they were not subjects of the Kushites. David O'Connor makes it clear in Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa (1993), that the Nubians or Nobatai "adopted a Romano-Egyptian culture very different from that of Meroitic Lower Nubia" (p.72). Welsby, in The Kingdom of Kush,also believes that the Dodekaschoenas was not fully occupied by Meroites. But there were some Meroites in the major cities. When the Romans left the area in AD 270, the Diocletian agreement was between the Nobatae and the Romans, not the Romans and Kushites. This makes it clear that the Nubian speakers were Western oriented and not Meroites. In fact the oldest known Noba inscriptions were written in Greek and Coptic, not Meroitic. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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