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Hafsa Amberkab (R) and Fatma Addar (L), Nubian Egyptian women who compiled a handy dictionary of some 230 words in the Kenzi dialect, speak to an AFP journalist as they show off a Nubian lexical chart in the village of Gharb Suhail, near Aswan in Upper Egypt, some 920 kilometres south of the capital Cairo, on February 3, 2020. - Addar grew up in a Nubian family but as a child was schooled mostly in Arabic -- only hearing her ancestral tongue when spoken by the family elders. Amberkab, an entrepreneur, launched the initiative "Koma Waidi" -- meaning tales from the past -- documenting stories told by elders and collecting dying expressions. According to locals, the Nubian language is unpractised by many after their mass eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for the construction of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
2020-02-03
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