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Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by CyyRil: 5:19pm On Aug 07, 2013 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbIewxHQrk Saki Mafundikwa: ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets 1 Like |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 4:26pm On Aug 08, 2013 |
i havent watched the video yet bro. But I will. I know that some early west african tribes used writing systems similar to heiroglyphs of ancient egypt (symbolism). And I also like how ethiopians have still their own writing system unique to them. Thats pretty tight. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 5:12pm On Aug 08, 2013 |
*Kails*: its just amahari that have the writing system you are refering to, others have different systems and some don't or use arabic like the somalis before somalis started to use latin. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by ezeagu(m): 9:13pm On Aug 08, 2013 |
*Kails*: It's easy to think Egyptian writing is 'symbolism', but its actually writing which can be used to write utterances. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 10:10pm On Aug 08, 2013 |
somalia11: true that. i should have been specific. i also know somalis had their own writing system why did you guys switch? |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 10:11pm On Aug 08, 2013 |
ezeagu: i know dear. what about igbo people? do you guys have your own writing system/s? *i still haven't watched the video yet* |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 2:51am On Aug 09, 2013 |
*Kails*: it wasnt practiced by everyone, some used arabic , so in 1970 we picked a language that was easier and could also be easily used, latin, with some changes in certain letters. every keyboard has latin letters. every amaharis use latin letters , when they wrote online |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 3:42pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
somalia11: Ahhhh ok I see. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 3:45pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
*Kails*: found out miss somalia, won miss africa in utah this week, as you know the ethiopian came in second place , every where we go, ethiopians want to know, where we go, so we tell them just follow us little short midget.
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Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 5:10pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
somalia11: She deserved the title. She's a cutie And quit hating on ethiopians lol some somalis are short too. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 5:12pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
*Kails*: those mixed with ethiopians, never saw a grown somali man under 5' 11 yeah shes cute,
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Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 5:16pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
what do you think of this girl pretending to be somali in a miss africa pageant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iet7P7x0mE |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 5:26pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
Lol one somali babe I had a conversation with was short. I could see over her head and I am sure she and I are the same age. But you have a point tho because the other somalis I have met were mad tall.. Anyway, how do you know this jasmine girl is not half somali? That might be why she decided to rep somalia. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by somalia11: 5:27pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
*Kails*: i dont know if shes half somali, but she look like she is black, dont know any somalis that age that are half black, she looks like a light skin black. and her accent is black too. she knows little about somalia, i feel like she went in to rep a country so she could win. but that was in 2011, the real somali girl won in 2013. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by ezeagu(m): 6:50pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
*Kails*: Igbo people as a whole didn't have writing, but there is one known as a proto-writing system known as nsibidi and was used by eastern Igbo groups and over into western Cameroon. There were some other interesting symbolic signs that showed potential as writing but none as developed as nsibidi. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 7:48pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
somalia11: Lol @ the subliminal messages in this response. ezeagu: Oh ok I see. I see I need to do more research about nsibidi. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 8:14pm On Aug 09, 2013 |
You guys should look up the Bassa script.. |
Re: Ancient Alphabets From Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, You Name It by Nobody: 4:23pm On Aug 10, 2013 |
could you educate us and post some info about it? |
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