Personal Markers and Verbal Number in Meroitic

Thanks to the use of linguistic comparison and analyses new inscriptions, Meroitic, extinct language kingdom Meroe, Sudan, has become increasingly well known. The present article deals with identification personal markers verbal number. It shows how like many other languages, used a former demonstrative, qo, as 3rd person independent pronoun. An in-depth analysis royal chronicles kings princes compared their Napatan counterparts written in Egyptian, further yields 1st singular dependent pronoun e- (later variant ye-), which can be found related languages. A stela Candace Amanishakheto Naga is starting point for identifying 2nd plural pronouns are deb. These two morphemes linked most recent reconstructions Proto-Nubian conrm narrow genetic relation between Nubian Meroitic. Finally, reassessment so-called “verbal dative” ‐xe/‐bxe that this morpheme simply number marker integrated case endings. This makes it rare instance transcategorisation cross-linguistic typology