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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] Hikuptah [QUOTE] Mr.Winters so how did this writing system reach Ethiopia and are the ethiopians really ancient Saharans. [/QUOTE]I believe that the Ethiopians were ancient Saharans. The Ethiopians probably learned this writing in the Sahara and used it to write their own language. The original writing system of the Saharans was a syllabary. The Ethiopians modified the syllabary into a semi-syllabary/"alphabetic" script to write numerous Semitic languages: Themudic, Sabaean, Ge'ez . I prefer to call the Semitic speakers of Africa, Punites since many of them live in the area the Egyptians called Punt. The people of Punt lived in an area stretching from the Eastern desert of Egypt, eastward to the Red Sea, and Central Africa. These people spoke Puntite/Semitic languages. This group of Africoids lived in the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea Hills. Whereas most Africans are clean shaven the Puntites preferred to wear beards. The boats of these Easterners are found engraved at prehistoric sites in Mesopotamia. In the Egyptian records the standard of the Easterners was the Set animal. It also appears that Puntite speakers lived in the Proto-Sahara in modern Libya. As early as 2500 B.C. , Puntite people migrated into North Africa. Josephus maintained in Antiquities, that the people of Punt founded Libya. The Bible says: "...[T]he Libyans that handle the shield" (Jeremiah 46:9). "Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet" (Ezekiel 38:5). This passage from the Bible, makes it clear that many people of Persia and modern Ethiopia originally had lived in Libya. This supports the Bible's listing of the Libyans , Persians and Ethiopians as analogous ethnic groups. The Puntites are mentioned in Egyptian or Kemetic literature as invading this area around 2400 B.C., according to the text of Herkhut,found at Aswan, written during the VIth Dynasty of Egypt. The Egyptian traditions tell us that there was a struggle between Set and Horus which took place in Nubia. This story indicates that in ancient times Semitic-speaking people formerly lived in Nubia; this explains the Egyptian identification of Punt or Pwene as "the land of the gods" (Ullendorf 1973). This view is supported by the archaeological evidence that support a close relationship between the Puntites/ Ethiopians and Nubians. For example, according to Fattovich, the pottery from Tihama Cultural Complex and other Ethiopian sites shows similarities to the Kerma and C-Group pottery. Given this connection between Ethiopian civilizations and civilizations in Nubia, make it clear that the Ethiopians would have been familiar with the ancient writing system used in this area discussed above. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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