Arabic is not the ancestral language of the Sudan. But
Classical Sudanese Arabic has been spoken in the Nile Valley for Millennia. Islam and Arabs have been in Sudan for less
than 1500 years as a result many Sudanese do not see Arabs as their great
ancestors.
Any simpleton knows that Nile Valley history goes back
7-6000 years--not 1500. In the 1980's many Muslims believed Saudi Arabians were
going to support other Muslims around the world; and there was going to be a
renaissance of Islam. But this didn’t happen. The Saudis did not share their
oil money with other Muslim countries. The Saudis did not want to see a renaissance
of Islam, they only wanted to spread Wahhabism, which has evolved into various
terrorist groups destroying the peace in Africa , and the world.
As a result, many
Sudanese want to be associated with their Kushite heritage i.e., the
civilizations of Egypt, Kerma and Meroe. Secondly, Semitic speakers did not
enter the Nile Valley with the Arabs. A linguistic analysis of Classical
Sudanese Arabic (CSA) illustrates that this language has been spoken in the
Nile Valley for 5000 years.
As a result, CSA is related to Akkadian and South Arabic,
not standard Arabic and Hebrew. This is why CSA, should be called Classical
Sudanese Language (CSL), because it is an ancient language that has been spoken
in the Nile Valley for millennia. Furthermore, these Semitic speaking Sudanese
contributed to Egyptian, Kerman and Meroitic civilizations.
Standard Arabic and
Arabs in the Sudan is less than 1500 years old. CSA is 5000 years old. Given
the long history of CSA in Sudan, Sudanese who reject Arabism are not wrong,
they are just admitting that the history of Semitic speakers in Sudan is much
older than Arabs and the East African slave trade.
