NILOTIC ORIGINS OF HIEROGLYPHICS (MEDU NETER)

NILOTIC ORIGINS OF HIEROGLYPHICS (MEDU NETER)

NILOTIC ORIGINS OF HIEROGLYPHICS (MEDU NETER)

Although the ancient Kemetyu language, falls into the modern language family of Afro-Asiatic, there is nothing Asiatic about it. It was created in Africa, by Africans…Asiatics played no part in its creation. There are 5 languages in the “afro-asiatic” language group. Berber, Hamitic, Oromic, Chadic, and Semitic. All of them evolved in Africa with the exception of Semitic which is the youngest language out of the five which evolved in the Arabian Peninsula. Yet all languages in the Afro-Asaitic language group have firm roots in Africa with the ancient Medu Neter known as hieroglyphics evolving from the Proto-Saharn, a script found throughout the Sahel regions located just south of the Sahara Desert, stretching across the northern part of West Africa to the Red Sea in east Africa.

Mdw Ntchr known today as hieroglyphs was the writing system of ancient Kemet (Egypt). The translation of the two words means: sacred script or divine word. According to Historian Dr. Theophile Obenga, “Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing is the oldest writing system in the world dating to the age of African antiquity as far back as 3400 BC when the Pre-Dynastic Nubians of ancient Egypt developed the Medu Neter writing system in the Nile Valley during the era of Kemetic Civilization.”

Diodorus Siculus made the claim that the Hieroglyphs were actually an Ethiopian script, which was held sacred by the Egyptians and was learned and transmitted only within the priestly families of Egypt. Among the Ethiopians the script was so common that most Ethiopians knew how to read and write in hieroglyphs. Here is the excerpt:

“We must now speak about the Ethiopian (Nubian) writing which is called hieroglyphic among the Egyptians, in order that we may omit nothing in our discussion of their antiquities.”

• The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus Vol II, Book III

Source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3A*.html

Egyptian scholar Gamal Mokhtar argued that the inventory of hieroglyphic symbols derived from “fauna and flora used in the signs [which] are essentially African” and in “regards to writing, we have seen that a purely Nilotic, hence African origin not only is not excluded, but probably reflects the reality”.

Ancient Civilizations of Africa Vol 2 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged)) (Abridged ed.). London [England]: J. Currey. 1990. pp. 11–12.

Some scholars in the past suggested the Medu Neter was developed in the Levant by Semitic people. Although these theories have long been put to rest in academic communities some still repeat these long outdated notions. EW Budge, like Egyptian scholar Gamal Mokhtar agreed in a Nilotic origin, denoting or belonging to a subgroup of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya.

“It is impossible for me to believe that Egyptian is a Semitic language fundamentally. There are a very large number of words that are not Semitic and were never invented by a Semitic people. These words were invented by one of the oldest African people of the Nile valley of whose written language we have any remains. Their home lay far to the south, and all that we know of Predynastic Egypt suggests that it was in the neighborhood of the Great Lakes.”

• EW Budge, Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Dover, 1920

It is pretty safe to say that the Gyph for “face” in the Medu Neter language confirms the Nilotic origins put forth by Budge, Mokhtar and others.

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