... and upper Egypt and were invaded by Nilo Saharans at a later period.
Excerpts:
"In antiquity, Afroasiatic languages in Sudan belonged chiefly to
the phylum known as Cushitic, spoken on the eastern seaboard of
Africa and from Sudan to Kenya, including the Ethiopian Highlands.
The longest traceable member of Cushitic in Sudan is Beja, although
other branches such as Agaw and Highland East Cushitic are some-
times mentioned in discussions on the ancient peopling of Sudan."
Conclusion
"The toponymic data in Egyptian texts has broadly identified at least
three linguistic blocs in the Middle Nile region of the second and
first millennium BCE, each of which probably exhibited a great de-
gree of internal variation. In Lower Nubia there was an Afroasiatic
language, likely a branch of Cushitic.
By the end of the first millennium CE this region had been en-
croached upon and replaced by Eastern Sudanic speakers arriving"
37 El-Sayed, Afrikanischstämmiger Lehnwortschatz, pp. 126, 179–80.
38 For these names, see Cooper, Toponymy on the Periphery, pp. 233, 297, 294.
39 For this see the discussion in Bechhaus-Gerst, Nubier und Kuschiten im Niltal, pp. 30–80
40 Breyer, “Zwerg-Wörter und ägyptisch-kuschitischer Sprachkontakt bzw. –vergleich: Zur
sprachlichen Situation im mittleren Niltal des 3.-2. Jts. v. Chr,” pp. 99–112.
41 Takács, “Nubian Lexicon in Later Egyptian,” p. 571.
42 El-Sayed, Afrikanischstämmiger Lehnwortschatz, pp. 266–67.
Source:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...FjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2Nbk2WAghXM_iszFOBZxmo
Excerpts:
"In antiquity, Afroasiatic languages in Sudan belonged chiefly to
the phylum known as Cushitic, spoken on the eastern seaboard of
Africa and from Sudan to Kenya, including the Ethiopian Highlands.
The longest traceable member of Cushitic in Sudan is Beja, although
other branches such as Agaw and Highland East Cushitic are some-
times mentioned in discussions on the ancient peopling of Sudan."
Conclusion
"The toponymic data in Egyptian texts has broadly identified at least
three linguistic blocs in the Middle Nile region of the second and
first millennium BCE, each of which probably exhibited a great de-
gree of internal variation. In Lower Nubia there was an Afroasiatic
language, likely a branch of Cushitic.
By the end of the first millennium CE this region had been en-
croached upon and replaced by Eastern Sudanic speakers arriving"
37 El-Sayed, Afrikanischstämmiger Lehnwortschatz, pp. 126, 179–80.
38 For these names, see Cooper, Toponymy on the Periphery, pp. 233, 297, 294.
39 For this see the discussion in Bechhaus-Gerst, Nubier und Kuschiten im Niltal, pp. 30–80
40 Breyer, “Zwerg-Wörter und ägyptisch-kuschitischer Sprachkontakt bzw. –vergleich: Zur
sprachlichen Situation im mittleren Niltal des 3.-2. Jts. v. Chr,” pp. 99–112.
41 Takács, “Nubian Lexicon in Later Egyptian,” p. 571.
42 El-Sayed, Afrikanischstämmiger Lehnwortschatz, pp. 266–67.
Source:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...FjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2Nbk2WAghXM_iszFOBZxmo