Egyptian youth try to revive endangered Nubian language through music
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- A youth initiative in Egypt is trying to revive the endangered Nubian language through music.
Nubian heritage and language are a fundamental part of Egypt’s history and cultural diversity. The language became endangered in Egypt after the compulsory displacement of Nubians from their ancestral lands.
The displacement reached its peak in the 1960s around the time of the construction of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile.
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Beautiful language, and people that can still connect us to ancient Egypt and its culture. I wish more Nubians could speak up and share their history with the rest of the world. Most people don't know Nubians still exist in Egypt
Nubian needs to be preserved
Hold on to your ancient African culture and language. I enjoyed my time in Aswan in 1989 among the Nubians.
The language of my ancestors 🇸🇩❤️
good to see the love of the people preserve the culture language alive
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The most ancient language in the world ❤️ proud to be a nubian
Top 10 oldest languages in the world quote-
The first known language ever was a proto-language on the African continent, and the first known proto-writing system was created in Nigeria.
SOURCE blog busuu oldest-languages-in-the-world
The Nubian language is NOT the most ancient language in the world.
@@bricktwo5849 i disagree with you on general but obviously i would investigate it further thanks man, but historically the nubian civilization is the oldest civilization in the world we came first than the Egyptians.
@@bricktwo5849 OK you might be right I will check it up
@@bricktwo5849Hater….. It is
Am a nubian from Uganda and I thank God that we still preserved our language..
There's Nubians in uganda?
@@7mo32We are in Uganda On dual citizenship even others are in Kenya too
Don’t lie
@@samar7612 Instead of saying am lying Why don't you search on Google or CZcams ???????
@@7mo32In Kenya we are over 300k
Beautiful no joke❤️😩
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Great idea, we need to preserve our identity and culture and connect back to our roots .
The Nubian languages are a world treasure. The Nile Nubian languages (Kenuz/Dongolawi, Mahas/Halfawi) evolved directly from the Egyptian hieroglyphic language. No one could even imagine the modern Greek language going extinct.
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@@distantnative2478Hey brother, I think you might be missing my point. Nubian is basically a modern term that we use to call the black people of Egypt. The point is that the people that we call Nubians are the Ancient Egyptians. They are one and the same.
@@djedefresarki5416’m a sudanese nubian and what you’re saying is completely false ☠️☠️. Not all black egyptians are labelled as Nubian because there’s also Beja egyptians. And Nubians and Ancient Egyptians were neighbours, not the same people. The closest language to the ancient Egyptian language is coptic while Nubian is a nilo-saharan language which is completely different.
@@alisalman5917 Long ago the Beja were referred to as Nubian also, just because they are black. Brother, I would suggest you take a look at the ancient language yourself. You will discover the large commonality between your languages and the ancient. Coptic is not a modern language at all. It is an ancient liturgical language that was codified in the 1st century BC. Much commonality can also be found between Coptic and Kenuz, Andaandi, and Halfawi.
Ma shaa Allah alhamdulilah❤️
Very Beautiful❤️
Thank you, Nubians have their own culture and language, just like the Copts do.
This is the best country in North Africa Egypt 🇪🇬 and Sudan 🇸🇩
I love the music Nubians so much ❤❤
👍🏼👍🏼
I'm very interested in Nubian and Meroitic as well being a help to the people. We have been divided tribally and by religion for enslavement. Unite resurrect Nubian for Sudan and South Sudan, speak Nubian, do right, love one another, remember your mother, Afraka,honor your ancestors.
Nobody has contacted me that can speak Nubian. Why????
Us nubians have never been enslaved we only had slaves
@@boronto5715 you definitely don't know history and must be enslaved right now since so many uncountable Nubians went to Arab slave trade that even through generations of castration traves still show up in Arab DNA. So you should study the history of slavery in Islam as well the history of the human Genome.
However if you actually speak Nubian reach out to me.
@@malcolmking5023
In the arab slave trade nilotic people (like dinkas etc..) were enslaved by nubians, egyptians and north africans, and sold to the arabs.
Nubians are kings and queens they descend from great king Taharqa and they were never enslaved. If you were a slave that’s your problem we weren’t
@@malcolmking5023
I can speak nubian in dongla’s dialect so I can’t understand mahasi dialect of nubian
@@boronto5715 greetings, thank you for responding. Where are you? Are you in U.S. Nubia or elsewhere? Do you have Facebook, and/ or Whatsapp.?
May Allah bless all Nubians and help them preserve their culture and language ❤️. It’s kinda sad that you don’t see much effort from Sudanese Nubians to even learn the language tho.
All of their schools should teach it from the very first day.
The song sounds amazing... Honestly I don't like non western music, but this time it is really incredible 😊
anyone know the name of the song?
The original pharaohs.
They never were Egyptian since they have their own culture and people.
@@hyperturbofox17why did nubians used to live in the area of the aswan dam??? it had many ancient egypt temples and artifacts and used to be their home for centuries before being displaced for the building of the dam.
The real ancients
RA BLESS THE NUBIANS
Na bruh we worship Allah swt. Our ancestors were idol worshippers. Allah(God) has blessed the Nubians in Sudan/Egypt with Islam
@@nubiasfinest7910 Ra>>>>>>>Shitslam
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz lmao you aint Nubian nor will u ever be anyways…keep cheerleading tho
@@nubiasfinest7910 If Allah bless them, then why don't they have their own country? Why are Allah's chosen people, the Arabs, colonized them and are killing their language as demonstrated in this video?
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz Lmao, its called “new generation” buddy. Just like in the US the way people behave isnt like in the 1970s or 1980s. We still have the language, my grandmother spoke fluent Dongolawi and her arabic was broken. Culture and religion are 2 different things..expand your mind..dont judge before have knowledge..only partial Nubians have mixed w arabs..and we are glad the arabs have come but we still didnt lose our identity..we still the keepers of those lands😎
Theyre all Sudanese. The ones in Egypt have just been cut off when the British carved up the map between Egypt n Sudan. Thats why from Aswan to Dongola all the Nubians are still there n roam back and forth and they are black/brown skinned. They speak Egyptian arabic dialect but in actual they are sudanese
Thanks for your comment brother, but I think this is not entirely accurate. The people that are called Nile Nubians today, are actually the original ancient people of Egypt. They are not simply Sudanese. Ancient Egypt suffered numerous invasions from Europe and the Middle East and each time the native were marginalized and pushed further and further south, while others became more mixed.
The Nubian languages Kenzi/Dongolawi and Mahas/Halfawi have much relationship to the Ancient hieroglyphic language. This was demonstrated by a Nubian linguist years ago.
@@djedefresarki5416 Ancient Egyptian poems talk about the Nubians as different people. They had wars with them, but also trade and cultural exchanges. Egyptians conquered the Nubians and Nubians conquered the Egyptians. There were also mixed marriages between the two. But they weren't the same people. Ancient Egyptians saw the Nubians as different than themselves.
The difficulty in discussing this topic is the large quantity of misinformation that was put out long before our time.
First of all, the Ancient Egyptians never produced poetry recalling their conflict with the Nubians because there was no people called Nubian at that time. There were lands near and south of the first Cataract called Ta-Seti and Ta-Nhsi, but no one called Nubians.
Secondly, the modern usage of Nubians is a relatively recent occurrence that began largely around the time of the first Aswan dam when the land of the people living in the area came under threat. The various related ethnic groups adopted the term Nubian as a unifying term. Before this they were known by ethnic names such as Kenuz, Mahas, etc.
Perhaps you would be better off referring to the Kushites, but then again the Napatan Kushites were related to the Ancient Egyptians and apparently spoke a closely related dialect of the same language.
@@djedefresarki5416 It doesn't matter how they were called. The Egyptians knew their southern neighbours who were black people and had wars with them. Just like they had wars with the Lybians and Asiatics. And yes, they produced poetry about those wars. They also depicted the pharaoh striking or crushing them.
@@locusta-bw2vddid Egyptians ever called us black? Can u show me in any Egyptian texts they call us black
May Allah bless all Nubians and help them preserve their culture and language ❤️. It’s kinda sad that you don’t see much effort from Sudanese Nubians to even learn the language tho.
That's very unfortunate for many reasons. The Nubian languages are some of the most important languages in the world. They are literally the modern/living version of the Ancient Egyptian language.
@@djedefresarki5416 actually no, the nubian language has nothing to do with the ancient Egyptian language. I think you’re referring to the coptic language
@@alisalman5917 To the contrary. The close similarity between the Nile Nubian languages and the Ancient Egyptian language was demonstrated thoroughly by the late Dr. Mokhtar Khalil. Dr. Khalil was a Nubian of the Mahas. In his linguistic doctoral dissertation he was able to demonstrate the structural, grammatical, and lexical similarities between the ancient and the modern.
About Coptic. Coptic is not even remotely a modern language. It is an ancient Egyptian language a little younger than Demotic. No one would be speaking Coptic today or even 500 years ago. Language just doesn't work that way. No one goes around speaking Koine Greek, or Church Latin, or Ge'ez in Ethiopia, those are all purely ancient liturgical languages. The same is true for Coptic. All of these ancient languages evolved into their modern predecessors.