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Macrobia was an ancient kingdom situated in the Horn of Africa (present day Somalia). It is mentioned in the 5th century BC. It is mentioned in the 5th century BC. According to Herodotus' account, the Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon his conquest of Egypt (525 BC) sent ambassadors to Macrobia, bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to ...
In South Africa, the translator must be authorized by the High Court and must use an original (or a sworn copy of an original) in his physical presence as his source text. The translator may only swear by his own translation. There is no requirement for an additional witness (such as a notary) to attest to the authenticity of the translation.
9th-century bronze staff head in form of a coiled snake, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria. Evidence of the early smelting of metals – lead, copper, and bronze – dates from the fourth millennium BC. [62] Egyptians smelted copper during the predynastic period, and bronze came into use after 3,000 BC at the latest [63] in Egypt and Nubia.
SATI offers accreditation for general translation, sworn translation, language editing, simultaneous interpreting, and terminology in various combinations of South Africa's 11 official languages and some non-South African languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
As is typical of an Indo-European language, English follows accusative morphosyntactic alignment. Unlike other Indo-European languages, English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system in favour of analytic constructions. Only the personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class. English ...
Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...
African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.It has differentiated itself from other continental areas of historiography due to its multidisciplinary nature, as Africa's unique and varied methods of recording history have resulted in a lack of an established set of historical works ...
West African manuscripts of Gambia contain Muslim court records, which were composed in Arabic between 1927 CE and 1954 CE and that provide details of the struggles between elites and commoners, men and women, and the elderly and the young, as well as police records that were composed in English. [1] West African manuscripts from Dakar, Senegal ...