By "texts" I mean anything with text on it.
2006-08-31 11:11:44 · 6 answers · asked by Bob 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Stick Figures Rooting On Bark?
2006-08-31 11:14:48 · answer #1 · answered by skettopolis 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
of course its egyptian with written texts dating back 3000 b.c.
and then punic inscriptions of the cathaginian era.
other things you might like to look up are the tefinagh (the tuareg's alphabet) but sources are a bit contradictory about it, and the numidian funerary inscriptions.
south to the sahara i'm afraid you won't find much more than the amharic inscrptions in ethiopia and some transcriptions in arabic and later in latin alphabet by the missionaries.
2006-08-31 14:36:34 · answer #2 · answered by maroc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not until 1400s when people who were literate And wanted to record other languages made contact. Most african languages were so separated from the family of the ME, and europe that new symbols had to be created, but starting into the 1400s we have letters written by tribal leaders and kings (or by their scribes that they employed) in many languages.
2006-08-31 11:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by kazak 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jet Magazine
2006-08-31 11:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The earliest writing in Africa is in Egypt, about 4500 years ago
2006-08-31 11:37:39 · answer #5 · answered by Taivo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a guess but I would have thought it would be something from Egypt.
2006-08-31 11:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by Dazza 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋