Are there shared alphabet symbols between Africa and Egypt?
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”: —Quote— 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 Egy
