Old Nubian

Old Nubian
Native to	Egypt, Sudan
Region	Along the banks of the Nile in Lower and Upper Nubia (southern Egypt and northern Sudan)
Era	8th–15th century; evolved into Nobiin.
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Northern Eastern Nubian Old Nubian
Writing system	Nubian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	onw
Linguist List	onw
Glottolog	oldn1245
A page from an Old Nubian translation of the Investiture of the Archangel Michael, from the 9th–10th century, found at Qasr Ibrim, now at the British Museum. Michael's name appears in red with a characteristic epenthetic -ⲓ.

Old Nubian (also called Middle Nubian or Old Nobiin) is an extinct Nubian language, attested in writing from the 8th to the 15th century AD. It is ancestral to modern-day Nobiin and closely related to Dongolawi and Kenzi. It was used throughout the kingdom of Makuria, including the eparchy of Nobatia. The language is preserved in more than a hundred pages of documents and inscriptions, both of a religious nature (homilies, prayers, hagiographies, psalms, lectionaries), and related to the state and private life (legal documents, letters), written using adaptation of the Coptic alphabet.