80% of African Languages are Oral Only

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[–]Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know what you're talking about. Almost every African language is written with the Latin alphabet.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What do you mean what I am talking about? That is the claim of the post.

Frankly I think that your claim that all of these African people are writing in Latin is absurd. That some outside entity who does not natively speak the language can phonetically wite it out in a different language is besides the point and is not a valid counter to the argument.

The claim is that entire cultures have no way to pass down knowledge outside of oral tradition.

I don't believe for a second they do it in Latin.

[–]Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The claim is that entire cultures have no way to pass down knowledge outside of oral tradition.

This is true (of most cultures) which has its pluses and minuses (see also Socrates)

You seem to have a poor grasp on the distinction between languages and scripts so I'm not sure how fruitful further discussion will be.