Eastern Sudanic family
Nobiin
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Nobiin (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Eastern Sudanic language. Lineage: Proto-Eastern Sudanic → Proto-Nubian → Old Nubian → Nobiin.
See Nobiin on the interactive map- ISO 639-3
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Nubian language of the Nile valley on the Egypt–Sudan border; the closest living descendant of Old Nubian. Many speakers were displaced by the Aswan High Dam.
Lineage
- Proto-Eastern Sudanicc. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE
- Proto-Nubianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
- Old Nubianc. 700 CE – 1500 CE
- Nobiinc. 1500 CE – today