Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

==Practices==

===Question and Answer sessions===

During the AAC period, the movement's ministers oversaw "Question and Answer" sessions at its various bookstores, usually on Sunday afternoons.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=52}} 
These sessions were a space for followers to engage in speculative discussions.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=43}} Ministers in attendance often serve to raise questions and encourage debate among the attendees, rather than to provide coherent answers.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=42}}

===Language===

{{Infobox language
|name          = Nuwaubian
|altname       = Nubic
|nativename    = Nuwabyan Lughat, Nube <ref>{{cite web|last=York-El|first=Malachizodoq|date=1970|title=Teacher's Guide To The Nuwaubian Language|url=https://archive.org/details/TeachersGuideToTheNuwaubianLanguage/page/n1/mode/2up|website=archive.org|location=United States|access-date=March 18, 2026}}</ref>
|image = Nuwaubic.png
|imagecaption = Nuwaubic lettering
|pronunciation = 
|creator       = [[Dwight York|Dwight (Malachi Z.) York]]
|ethnicity     = Nuwaubians
|created       = 1960s
|era           = [[New religious movements in the United States#20th-century movements|20th-cent. New Religious movement]]s in the U.S.A.
|region       = [[Nuwaubian Nation#The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors and Tama Re|Tama-Re]]
|fam1          = [[Mixed language|Mixed]] [[African American Vernacular English|Black Vernacular]]-[[Quranic Arabic]]
|fam2          = [[Constructed language]]s
|fam3          = [[Liturgical languages]]
|posteriori    = [[A priori and a posteriori|a posteriori]]
|script        = Nuwaubian alphabet 
}}

Like other black nationalist new religions that arose in the 20th century, the Nuwaubian movement emphasised the deconstruction of the [[English language]].{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=42}} They use words as a means of empowerment, focusing on the sounds of the words and the rhythms of the syllables.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=42}} In understanding the meaning of the words, they reject standard [[philology]] and [[linguistics]];{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=42}} Palmer noted that the Nuwaubians instead employed "word play, erroneous semantic links or make-up definitions" in their understanding of language.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xxv}} She described an example at a Nuwaubian meeting where the speaker maintained that the word "exact" derives from "eggs-act" and pertained to how an egg can break.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xxv}} Elsewhere, York claimed that the term "gospel" came from "ghost spell".{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=15}}

Nuwaubians often greet each other with the Nubic term "Rahuawabbat".{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xxiii}}
They often use the term "overstanding" for "understanding," a change borrowed from Rastafari,{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=xv, 15}} and similarly "overtaking" for "undertaking".{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=15}}

===Calendar and festival===

York also established his own calendar, which marked the year 1970 as the Nuwaubian year 1 A.T. ("After the Truth").{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=128}} During the movement's Jewish-oriented phase in the early 1990s, its members observed Jewish [[Shabbat]] regulations, resting between sunset on Friday and the sunset on Saturday.{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=128}} During this period, the movement also celebrated a range of Jewish festivals, including [[Passover]], [[Rosh Hashanah]], [[Yom Kippur]], and [[Hannukah]].{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|pp=129-130}}