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The Meroitic language was spoken in Meroë (in present-day Sudan) during the Meroitic period (attested from 300 BCE) and became extinct about 400 CE. It was written in two forms of the Meroitic alphabet: Meroitic Cursive, which was written with a stylus and was used for general record-keeping; and Meroitic … See more
Meroitic is an extinct language also referred to in some publications as Kushite after the apparent attested endoethnonym Meroitic qes, qos (transcribed in Egyptian as kꜣš). The name Meroitic in English dates to 1852 where … See more
During the Meroitic period, Meroitic was written in two forms of the Meroitic alphasyllabary: Meroitic Cursive, which was written with a See more
The Meroitic period began ca. 300 BCE and ended ca. 350 CE. Most attestations of the Meroitic language, via native inscriptions, hail from this period, though some attestations pre- and post-date this period. The Kushite territory stretched from the area of the See more
The classification of the Meroitic language is uncertain due to the scarcity of data and difficulty in interpreting it. Since the alphabet was … See more
• Meroitic Newsletter (Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1968).
• Bender, Marvin Lionel, The Meroitic problem, in Bender, M. L., editor, Peoples and cultures of the … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Meroitic language - Wikipedia @ WordDisk
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