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8 XXXI Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Секция XIII Much more recently Asmahān attended a Nubian exhibition mounted at the University of Exeter. In thanks for the speech she gave us, Ann presented her with some coloured clothes pegs. Ḥājja Zahra o ne of her elderly neighbours in`Amka used to tell her and her friends, ‘Woh Buruii! (O girls!) Do not marry a farmer, reeking of manure. Marry a station master.’ So according to Asmahān, ‘Eventually I married my station master, Dr. Eltigani Mursi.’ When Nubians of the Sudan were moved 1300 kilometres by train to their new homes far away from the River Nile, they were shocked to discover new villages designated by numbers rather than their original toponyms such as `Amka and Serren Mátto. The late Dr. `Abd al-Ḥalīm Ṣabbār (2012) wrote a disapproving article and published it for the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). It was called ‘Numbers as Geographical Names in Nubia’. 1 There was another loss when the residents of Nubia had to leave their historic land. For almost 2000 years the Nubian riverbanks had been serenaded by the creaking and groaning of the waterwheel (Nubian: escaléy ). Songs were sung to the accompaniment of the waterwheels ( escaléynci) . Before the departure of the residents in 1964 the air around inhabited sites such as the east bank opposite Abu Simbel had been filled with the music of waterwheels. Kosogorova M. A. (Institute of Linguistics RAS, MSU, Moscow) Valence-changing derivation expressed in Pular verbal morphology The purpose of talk is to delimit the valence-changing possibilities expressed by means of verbal morphology in Guinean Pular (Niger-Congo› Atlantic-Congo› Atlantic› Northern› Senegambian› Fula-Wolof› Fula).Afinite verb in Pular has a rigid structure of 2 core morphemes and four peripheral ones. The core ones are a verbal root and a voice-aspect affix, and examples of verbs with peripheral morphemes are below (core morphemes are bold-faced). 1 Sabbar A. Numbers as Geographical Names in Nubia. Endonyms or Exonyms? // Woodman, P. (ed.). The Great Toponymic Divide. Reflections on the definition and usage of endonyms and exonyms. Warsaw/Warszawa: Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, 2012. P. 105–110. See also: Sabbar A. The Toponymy of an Endangered Nubian Language. Oxford: Nubian Languages and Culture, 2018 (e-book). [The electronic version of this book is freely available for downloading at the following link: URL: http://ungegn.zrc-sazu.si/Publications/TheToponymyofanEndangeredNubianLanguage (accessed 09.05.2021)].