Away from politics - Linguistic Archeology from Sudan:

To the above story, I would like to add what Dr. Hassan Awadh Satti (a Dungulawi Medical doctor from Labab Isalnd where Imam Mahdi came from) wrote an article titled “Commonality between English and Dungulawi languages”, published in Al Rai Al Aam newspaper dated around 2001. The English language meant here is old Shakespearean language (1616) and not contemporary English of today.
He wrote about many words used in common between the two languages such as “assie” meaning water , and jumbo (like in jumbo plane) meaning big axe, just to name a few.
Before Dr. Wilson and Dr. Hassan, I wrote many articles under the title “linguistic archaeologies”, where I explained that people of Algeria speak the languages of Sokkot and Halfawiyah of Northern Sudan, not the languages of Mahas and Danaglah, which are completely different from Sokkot language. For example the Sokkot say “amang” for water, while Danaglah say “assie”.
This observation was made by Algerian soldiers who took part in the Swis 1967 war between the Arabs and Israel, something which was confirmed to me by a Halfawi who used to work at the Sudanese Embassy in Algiers in 1984. He stated that he understood most of what is being said by the Berber of Algeria in streets and in markets.

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