Why didn't native Africans invent the art of writing?
Brian Smith's answer to Why didn't native Africans invent the art of writing?1000s of years ago there were a few ancient written languages in Africa. Those languages and people do not exist anymore and have very few links to todays modern black Africans. It is almost like in the distant past, there was a brain drain out of Africa.Mudi Baba's answer to Why didn't native Africans invent the art of writing?Native Africans did invent writing styles, however my history tells me that they may have been exclusively used by secret societies where their knowledge and use were closely guarded secrets as well, open only to initiates—————————The Kongo had a complex writing system and recorded their history on storyboards made of clay or wood. Many of them were stolen and can be found in museums in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Vatican.The Ngoyo, the Vili and many other Kongo groups had a writing system described as a hieroglyphic by Father Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi, an Italian missionary, who spent years in the Kingdom of Kongo in the 17 C.Google search Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign by Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz.The book explains a very complex indigenous writing system.Goodle search the Kiduma (the secret society and the secret alphabet)A male secret society that takes charge of social celebrations and riturals (feasts and funerals, in particular) in Kongo communities.Kiduma is also a secret alphabet used by members of the Kimbanguist Church.
Why would my African-American ancestors list "Ethiopian" under race on their WWI Draft registration cards?
They were not immigrants. Their grandfather was born in North Carolina in 1804. They listed "natural-born [American] citizens" as their nationalities. They were farm laborers in Osceola, Arkansas who could read and write, but were not well-educated. Ethiopia was not generally regarded as a source of African slaves because of its placement on the continent. It also seems unlikely that poorly-educated blacks would have just pulled "Ethiopian" out of thin air. Two of them wrote it themselves (i.e., in their own handwriting), on two different registration dates (six months apart), before two different registration officers. Is there something about Black History that I may be missing is resolving this issue? Thanks in advance for your best relevant guesses.
Do you think having a good handwriting is important?
No, I don’t think so.If hand writing must be good then nobody in this world would have achieved a lot.It is not necessary to be good rather it should be understandable that’s enough.Picasso had an bad handwriting and look at what happened to him! That’s why you should never let “bad handwriting” undermine your own confidence. Don’t stick with any false perceptions about yourself. And don’t allow other people to make unfounded judgement about you based on your handwriting alone.please look into it (below url).BAD handwriting = Famous personality ???
How many South Africans have Snapchat?
52
Do archeologists/historians ever have to decipher poor handwriting while on the job?
Oh, my, yes. The quality of handwriting and condition of a text can be significant issues in understanding a document. This affects historians and archaeologists to the extent that they look at original documents, which is something many actually don’t. However, one of the things historians may do is work on simply figuring out what a text says. There are still any number of documents in archives around the world which are at least theoretically accessible to scholars, but in practice are only looked at by specialists. They’re simply illegible to most readers, even many historians, and one useful exercise those specialists can perform is to transcribe historical documents in a more legible form, making them more accessible to everyone else. This may involve a lot of detective work and reconstruction. I’ve just been reading a 15th century chronicle from West Africa, only recently published for the first time in English, which has a preface describing the efforts of the scholars who pored over three different copies of the work from different places and times and in various different states of preservation (one was missing chapters, another was in good condition but clearly heavily altered from the original, another clearly very close to the original text but in poor condition with many gaps) so that they could reconstruct from them a single more-or-less authoritative text.
What is the most beautiful writing system (script)?
It's hard to argue against Arabic being the most beautiful script, in its many calligraphic styles.But I would also like to nominate Tibetan script.And my personal favourite, which I'll try to learn for a second time in a few months, since I failed miserably last time, traditional Mongolian script.Of course my favourite language also has three nifty scripts, all of which can look pretty good in the hands of the right calligrapher.Georgian Asomtavruli.Georgian Nuskhuri.Georgian Mkhedruli.
Why do many Chinese people have similar English handwriting?
(I work with a lot of Chinese people from Mainland China, who were born and brought up there with Mandarin as their native language, and English as a secondary language, to varying degrees of proficiency. I will look at their handwriting more closely to try and give some more insight into this question, but I have not until now noticed any striking similarity in their handwriting - I find it easy to distinguish between their handwriting.)EDIT: Have a look through this funny blog, and see if the picture posts look like they have similar handwriting to you (though they are from immigrants from all over South-East Asia): http://mymomisafob.com/My handwriting is very different to both my mother's, my father's, my mother's brother, and his wife's, and theirs are all very different to each other, though we may not be an example of what you're getting at/intend to mean. I hope my background will give you a comparator to your own experiences and to other answers.My mother and her brother were born in Hong Kong and learnt both English and Cantonese at school there in the 1950s, though they only spoke Cantonese at home, and their mother could not read or write English - their father's English proficiency I am not sure about, but I guess that it would have been relatively limited, although he did work as a bus and taxi driver in England. They came over to England in the early 1960s, and went to secondary school here.My father was born in Guangzhou (Canton) in the 1950s, and learnt Cantonese and Mandarin at school. He came over to England in the early 1970s, and I think he only started to learn English when he came here, or had a very limited grasp of it before he came - he still has difficulty with vocabulary, spelling, and grammar sometimes.I was born, brought up, and educated here in England, and have not yet learnt to read or write either Traditional or Simplified Chinese, though I can speak some Cantonese - I only learnt English, and some French, German, and Spanish at high school. As a somewhat naive onlooker, different Chinese people's writing in both Chinese and English looks different to me.