Explanations:
- old Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets are very close together, both in the shape of letters and their succession: alif/ba/gim... alpha/beta/gamma... aleph/bet/gimmel... This suggests a common origin, which the bible says to be antediluvian:
"Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens." And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Therefore the name of the city was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth." Genesis 11
Studying the oldest languages we know about may gives useful hints for the quest of that language:
- old Arabic languages are very different from modern Arabic, but very close to old Hebrew:
Safaitic, Lihyanite are languages from old Arab tribes, in south Arabian desert; since they were relatively isolated from other cultures, their languages had few evolutions, which is of interest: they remain close to their original language
Surprisingly, in Colorado, petroglyphs have been found who match old Arabian alphabet 500 BC more than 90% :
More astonishing, these scripts relate stories about Temple, Adonai, ... and should come from an Arabian tribe living in the area of Israel, after the temple's building by King Solomon, just as Lihyanites. It seems impossible to have these scripts in Colorado.
Yet, an objective study of the book of Mormon claims Lehi (a Lihyanite...) was ordered by YHVH to quit the land of Israel and to travel to a new land, which the book of Mormon claims to be America. Therefore, some of the native Americans may be of Arabic and Jewish origin, emigrating around 500 or 600BC.
Dating, location, alphabetical correspondences, content of the stories (temple, Adonai, ...), climatic correspondences (the new land in partly desert) etc, ...give sense to the Book of Mormon, although I was skeptic before. It would be interesting to compare DNA from natives Americans of Colorado and DNA from Jewish and south Arabic. Some correspondences may prove the reliability of the story of Mormon.
Note that the author uses Hebrew roots to translate petroglyphs: it means old Arabic was grammatically very close to Hebrew. (and not just the alphabet).
Read
http://www.viewzone.com/expo2002.html to learn more about this discovery.
- Royal Sabean is a the language of the Queen of Sheba, who lived in Ethiopia 950 BC; she had a son with King Salomon who built the first Jewish temple: here is an example of beautiful Sabean script:
- Ethiopian 1200BC is the ancestor of Sabean, and Thamudic is the oldest Arabic script known, 1500BC
There is a great homogeneity between these alphabets: there was little variation during centuries: they shouldn't be too far from the first worldwide alphabet.
- the chart also displays various roman alphabets, dating from 300BC to 700 BC; they are said to come from Etruscan and Greek
- Greek alphabets 800BC-900BC are not exactly the same, even at the same period: Greece was a federation of cities with alphabetic variations
