Ethnicity

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Nubian people (Sudan)

Since the ancient Nubians have depicted themselves in the numerous drawings, and also from anthropological studies of fossils, we come to have a good idea of how they looked like. Accordingly, it is certain that ancient Nubians look almost typical to the modern day people of Northern Sudan¹.

Mummy of Nubian girl.

According to the Table of Nations (part of the Biblical story of Noah) Kush was the one of the sons of Ham and the father of the Kushites or the Nubians. According to the system of linguistic of classification, the Kushite language is classified among the Hamito-Semitic. The later was used as a term of classification for the group of languages spoken by indigenous North African groups such as the Beja, Berbers, and the ancient Egyptians. The Hamito-Semetic languages were considered as sharing both North African and Asian characteristics. This may be correct, but the bases for this system of classification is, perhaps, too simple to be considered.

Genetic researches indicate that the Nubians are the direct descendants of the earliest human population that ventured out of the African continent and populated Asia and Europe around 70,000 years ago. Nubian genetic frequencies are evident in various populations throughout North Africa, the Indian sub-continent, and the Caucasus in Eurosia ².

In any case, the Nubians are certainly indigenous in the land of Sudan and they are the direct ancestors of the vast majority of modern Sudanese people.

¹Service, Pamela F. The Ancient African Kingdom of Kush (Cultures of the Past). New York: Benchmark Books, 1998. 56.

²The Nubian mtDNA lineage is commonly represented by haplogroups M and N. For more information on the haplogroups see: Greenfield, Tom, ed. "Haplogroup M (mtDNA)". The Individualist. 31 Oct. 2008. <http://www.dadamo.com/wiki/wiki.pl/Haplogroup_M_(mtDNA)>