--- title: "A Brief History of Northern East Sudanic Linguistics" author: "Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei" abstract: "" keywords: "" --- # The First Hints # An Orphaned Family Nilo-Saharan first proposed in Greenberg 1963: 130–148 Details remain a matter of debate, Dimmendaal 2008: 843–44 Nilo Saharan is not broadly recognized as a linguistic unity # Issues ## The Position of Nobiin Nobiin separate: Thelwall 1982, BG 1984, 1989, 1996 Nobiin in Nile Nubian: Rilly 2010, 274–278 and Starostin 2017, 2020, this issue ## The Inclusion of Meroitic History of discussion on Meroitic language family pertinence ## The Inclusion of Nyima Ehret 2001, 88 excludes Nyima from "Astaboran" Bender 1997, 30 (Ek) and Rilly 2010, 158 include it # The Development of Northern East Sudanic take from lecture at PCMA Cairo