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8. The Jebel Nuba of Holroyd.—i/oarno/ of Geograpkicd Soctety. 
The Keouz, Noub, and Dongolah form the Nubian Proper, or the Nuliu 
of Nubia. On the west they are conterminous with the Ababdie, Bisbane, 
and Beja languages. 
For the northern part of the country between the juection of the Taoiw, 
and the confluence of the Babr el Azrek with the llahr el Abiad, Bisbm 
dialects are spoken. The southern portion is the frontier of Abyssinia. Ik 
Bahr el Abiad leads towards the Shilluck country, and to the parts betma 
Kordofan and Sennaar. . 
1. Of the Shilluck wc have (ll a short vocabulary by Sceton, in t» 
Mithridates, and (2) a longer one by Huppoll. 
The root Shilha seems to be the second element in the name of the 
country (Dar-saley), and possibly in that of the old African tribe 
2. The Denka is a language conterminous, on the north, with the ShiUua- 
and allied to it. 
a. Ruppell’s Denka vocabulary. . , 
h. Unpublished materials for the Denka language are in the posse^oo« 
Dr. Lawrence TuUchek, collected by his brother and himself from a Denh 
youth purchased at Alexandria. , 
3. The Takcli.—Probably conterminous with the Shilluck on the east,*M 
with the Koldagi on the west. 
a. Ruppell’s Takeli vocabulary. . 
b. Tutschek’s Tuniali.— One of the youths just mentioned was of thebniw 
or Turaali nation ; and his language has been studied by the Tutsebe^ 
few words with which Dr. L. Tutschek favoured the present writer 
him to consider the Takeli and Tumali as allied dialects. 
ngitt eye. 
unde^ blind. 
dffUd, mountain. 
wni, servant. 
btrr, earth. 
dgdnuy ass. 
ibd, fire. 
vt/dnu, woman. 
green. 
vr/, heart. 
d‘babi, hair. 
d^Ji, heaven. 
alkrcuty hill. 
ahdoki cock. 
ngelinii to bear. 
ili, little. 
rok, dead body. 
orm, man. 
ndger, mouth. 
dod, language. 
ing'.n, name. 
dgigak, girl. 
Tn^rta, hoi'se. 
00 . 
Ttmali Language. 
leng, star. 
g'mdn, quick. 
d}ie, sun. 
tom, forehead. 
osme, to sit. 
tri, sheep. 
S^a».} 
endien, sister. 
umi, servant, slave. 
dgu, daughter. 
lun, people. 
elidg, wood. 
feneatuie, to weep, cry. 
angMt, to know. 
adg, head. 
dla, finger. 
bdba, father. 
horlok, whip. 
dgudeng, brother. 
d[r, back. 
ei, yes. 
findtUl, lip. 
Jia7i, cow. 
JIL fie. 
