Suakin
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Suakin or Sawakin is a port city in northeastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was formerly the region's chief port, but is now secondary to Port Sudan, about 50 kilometres north.
Suakin, El-Geyf mosque
Building of Suakin in ruins
Suakin in 1928
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.
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.