# Trigger 1966: The Languages of the Northern Sudan: an Historical Perspective

> Bruce G. Trigger, 1966. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The early statement of the Eastern Sudanic hypothesis that Rilly later demonstrated.

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# The Languages of the Northern Sudan: an Historical Perspective

Bruce G. Trigger, 1966. _The Journal of African History 7 (1), 19-25_.

Reviews where the Nubian languages came from, placing their homeland in Kordofan or Darfur and their arrival on the middle Nile between about AD 200 and 500, where they replaced Meroitic; suggests that Meroitic may be, but has not been proved to be, an Eastern Sudanic language.

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The early statement of the Eastern Sudanic hypothesis that Rilly later demonstrated.

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Trigger, B. G. (1966). The Languages of the Northern Sudan: an Historical Perspective. The Journal of African History 7 (1), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700006046
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