Meroitic language

Meroitic
Kushite
Meroitic inscription (1st century BC), Egyptian Museum of Berlin
Native to	Kingdom of Kush
Region	Southern part of Upper Egypt around Aswan (Lower Nubia) to the Khartoum area of Sudan (Upper Nubia)
Era	Possibly attested as early as 12th Dynasty Egypt (ca. 2000–ca. 1800 BC) and fully extinct no later than the 4th century AD[1]
Language family	Unclassified (possibly Nilo-Saharan or Afroasiatic)
Writing system	Meroitic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xmr
Linguist List	xmr
Glottolog	mero1237

The Meroitic language (/mɛroʊˈɪtɪk/) was spoken in Meroë (in present-day Sudan) during the Meroitic period (attested from 300 BC) and became extinct about 400 AD. It was written in two forms of the Meroitic alphabet: Meroitic Cursive, which was written with a stylus and was used for general record-keeping; and Meroitic Hieroglyphic, which was carved in stone or used for royal or religious documents. It is poorly understood, owing to the scarcity of bilingual texts.