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Are there shared alphabet symbols between Africa and Egypt?
Are there language similiarities
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Apparently, yes.
There is a school of thought that is supported by archaeological evidence indicating that African literacy began in the Sahara over 5000 years ago (Winters 1971, 1981a,1983). This earliest form of writing was a syllabic system that included hundreds of phonetic signs, which over time was shorten to between 22 and 30 key signs, and used as an alphabet by the Egyptians, Meroites, Phonesians and Ethiopians.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/anwrite.htm
Still, according to "hubpages.com":
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It is now generally agreed that all alphabets derived from one original alphabet. In its broad lines, the story of this system from the end of the second millennium B.C. until now is not very difficult to trace, though its origin and many details of its development and of the origin of some individual alphabets are still uncertain.
Various theories have been advanced from time to time since classical antiquity. At one period or another, by one scholar or another, the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Cretan, Runic and other scripts have been considered the prototype.
Probably the original alphabet was an indigenous, more or less original, invention of the North-west Semitic population of Syria and Palestine. It may be argued that this North Semitic alphabet arose in, or rather before, the middle of the second millennium B.C.
The great achievement lay in the evolving of a purely alphabetic system, which denoted each sound by one sign only. No other people in the world has been able to create such a system, and the invention of the alphabet must be ranked among the supreme benefactions.
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There is a school of thought that is supported by archaeological evidence indicating that African literacy began in the Sahara over 5000 years ago (Winters 1971, 1981a,1983). This earliest form of writing was a syllabic system that included hundreds of phonetic signs, which over time was shorten to between 22 and 30 key signs, and used as an alphabet by the Egyptians, Meroites, Phonesians and Ethiopians.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/anwrite.htm
Still, according to "hubpages.com":
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It is now generally agreed that all alphabets derived from one original alphabet. In its broad lines, the story of this system from the end of the second millennium B.C. until now is not very difficult to trace, though its origin and many details of its development and of the origin of some individual alphabets are still uncertain.
Various theories have been advanced from time to time since classical antiquity. At one period or another, by one scholar or another, the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Cretan, Runic and other scripts have been considered the prototype.
Probably the original alphabet was an indigenous, more or less original, invention of the North-west Semitic population of Syria and Palestine. It may be argued that this North Semitic alphabet arose in, or rather before, the middle of the second millennium B.C.
The great achievement lay in the evolving of a purely alphabetic system, which denoted each sound by one sign only. No other people in the world has been able to create such a system, and the invention of the alphabet must be ranked among the supreme benefactions.
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