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Did ancient Egyptians migrate to Nigeria?

The routes and the means of travel those ancient Egyptians assumedly used to journey to Nigeria cannot be proven. Despite the presence of some Egyptian cultural remnants in western Nigeria, people who could be identified clearly as remnants of predynastic and dynastic Egyptians in Nigeria are lacking.

What languages are related to ancient Egyptian?

Ancient Egyptian is considered to be a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, meaning that ancient Egyptian has similarities to Akkadian, Arabic and Hebrew, and is quite different from Indo-European languages like English, French and German.

Did igala originated from Egypt?

Furthermore, on several occasions, Attah Igala has said that Igala originated from Egypt around the Nile river; one of these occasions was during the Igala National Congress hosted by him on the 15th February, 2020, in his palace, Idah, Kogi state where he told the gathering of six states indigenous Igala delegations …

Where did Nigerians descend from?

The overrepresentation of Nigeria ancestry is said to be a result of intra-American slave trade between the British Caribbean and mainland Americas.

How did the Bantu people come from Egypt?

The following article is from Wikipidia and lists some Bantu people who came from Egypt: The Luhya oral literature of origin, suggest a migration into their present-day locations from the north. Virtually all sub-ethnic groups claim to have migrated first south from Misri, or Egypt.

What is the difference between the Bantu and Semitic languages?

Bantu languages contain prefixes which are agglutinated to verb stems. Semitic languages generally do not contain prefixes and to suggest that M is a formative prefix in Semitic is misleading. My book examines the phrase ‘The Sun Shines/Rises in the sky’. In all probability the Semitic languages fail to address the phrase, for all the

Is the ancient Egyptian language closely related to other languages?

The scholar Cheik Anta Diop’s work on the Ancient Egyptian language also echoes the views of Sir Alan Gardiner. The evidence I have uncovered is that the vocabulary of the Ancient Egyptian language is closely related to the Bantu languages of East/Central and Southern Africa.

What is the Niger-Congo hypothesis on the origin of Bantu languages?

The Niger-Congo hypothesis developed by Joseph Greenberg on Bantu languages state that the Bantu originated in West Africa, the Cameroon, and migrated across the the Congo basin into Southern and East Africa.