Sudanese depiction as mispronouncing Arabic letters reinforced Egyptian tutelage over Sudan

Evidence

Sanüa clearly defines who is an Egyptian by the way his characters speak, but he is not as clear when it comes to the Sudanese or Nubians. In plays and other representations of the time, the Sudanese were just as constant a source of laughter when they spoke. But with the Sudanese, many of whom spoke Arabic as their native tongue, the linguistic stereotyping assumes another dimension in assertions of Egyptian authority.The Sudanese and Nubian characters' problems in Arabic come not from having a poor grasp of grammar or a lack of vocabulary, as the Turks and British had, but from a seeming inability to pronounce key Arabic letters correctly, for instance, the ayn, the hard h, and the kaf. There emerges, then, a linguistic tutorial between Egyptian and Nubian in Sanü`a’s work, in which the Egyptian instructs the latter in how to speak his native tongue. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 362