Beja people
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The Beja people or the Bejas are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea. They are d
Beja men dancing
The fourth century Ezana Stone commemorates a Kingdom of Aksum foray into Beja territory and Meroe.
Beni-Amer woman with her daughter, Kassala state, Sudan.
Geographical distribution of Afroasiatic languages. Beja speakers comprise the northernmost cyan zone, separated from the other Cushitic languages by Ethiosemitic speakers.
Beja language
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Beja is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea.
Beja people
…are nomadic and live primarily in the Eastern Desert. The Beja number from 1.9 million to 3 million. Some of the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, a Semitic language, while others speak Arabic. In Eritrea and southeastern Sudan, many members of the Beni-Amer grouping speak…
The ostracon which Francis Llewellyn Griffith believed bore writing in the Blemmyan language. Gerald M. Browne and Klaus Wedekind believe this to be the ancestor of the modern Beja language.