APPENDIX II. 



4G5 



subjoined list of a few common words in the Dongolawi of the Nile aiid in four Kordo- 

 fan dialects shows that the vocabulary also is essentially one : — 



It is incredible that the speech of the Uaua Negroes and Kordofan Nubas, if origi- 

 nally the same, could have maintained its identity with such slight changes as these for 

 a period of nearly 4,400 years — that is, from the time of Pepi (2500 b.c.), when mention 

 first occurs of the Uaua. It seems safe to conclude, that while the identity of the Nile and 

 Kordofan Nubas is established, neither branch has any obvious or necessary connection 

 with the extinct Uaua of the Egyptian records. 



Independently of this consideration, the Nubian language, first clearly elucidated by 

 Lepsius, presents some points of interest both to the philologist and ethnologist. Its 

 Negro character is shown in its phonology, in the complete lack of grammatical gender, 

 and in some structural peculiarities. Such is the infix / inserted between the verbal 

 root and the plural pronominal object, as in ai tokki-j-ir = I shake them. As in 

 Bantu, the verbal conjugation is highly developed, presenting such a multiplicity of 

 forms that in Lepsius' Grrammar the complete paradigm of a single verb fills as many 

 as 110 pages. The Nubian language never appears to have been cultivated, or even 

 committed to writing.* Hence it is not likely to afford the key, as some have suggested, 

 to the numerous undeciphered inscriptions occui-ring along the banks of the Nile as far 

 south as Senaar. 



It enables us, however, to dispose of the so-called " Nuba-Fulah" family, originally 

 constituted of heterogeneous elements by Frederick Miiller, and generally accepted by 

 anthropologists on the authority of that distinguished ethnologist. AVe have already 

 seen at the outset that the Fulahs are a non-Negro race, most probably allied to the 

 western Hamites of the Sahara. The Fulah speech, also, appears from Krause's 

 Grammar to be a non-Negro language, betraying not the remotest resemblance to the 

 Nuba. Thus the Nubas are of Negro stock and speech, and so the "Nuba-Fulah" 

 family is dissolved, its disjecta membra finding each its place amongst its own kindred. 



Nuba 



Kargo 



Kulfan 



Kolaji 



Tumali 



Fur 



Kunjara 



Nubas Proper. 



Kordofan, chiefly in central and southern districts, 11° — 13° N. 



Western Nubas. 



The dominant race in Dar-Fur, to which country it gives its name ; speech 



appears to be akin to Nuba. 

 Dar-Fur and Kordofan ; a branch of the Fur, whoso language they still speak. 



Nile Nubas ("Nubians," " Bakabra"). 



Mattokki {Keiius) . From Asuan (First Cataract) to Sebu and Wadi-el-Arab 

 Saidokki, Malmi, or 



Marisi . . From Koro.'iko to Wady-Halfa (Second Cataract) 



* It is noteworthy, however, that Eutychius of Alexandria (930) includes the " Nubi " among the 

 six kinds of writing, which he tells us in a somewhat doubtful passage, were current amongst the Hamitic 

 peoples. 



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