Writer Marc Washington with the help of other researchers has traced the origin
of the alphabets in use to Nubia,( presently Sudan).
The alphabets we use follow the Transmission Chain:

Nubian Hieroglyphics (before 3100 B.C.)
Old Phoenician c. 900 B.C.
Greek c. 750 B.C.
Etruscan c. 650
Latin c. 500 B.C. to middle ages

http://www.beforebc.de/Related.Subjects/Roots.of.Language/08-10-00-12.html

edo 10000 bc

edo word for "write" is "gbeon"

and the phrase for "write down" is "gbeon yo'tor" which literally translates to "write on ground"

so it means they've been literally writing on the ground as form of communication from those ancient days thousands of years ago before christ, and some still practice that ancient form of writing till date. and alphabet a to z can be picked out from the inscriptions below.

[img]http://1.bp..com/_pdPgAWf_DRw/THXYSisvmgI/AAAAAAAAJjo/PtKaBUqkBto/s1600/MOON+AND+SUN+2.jpg[/img]

quite unfortunate though, that whatever is written on the ground is not durable and why i guess we cant find ancient edo writings even if they intended to keep the writings for long. and since they were writing with orhue which is just like ur normal chalk, the writings would easily have been wiped clean just like a school teacher wipes the blackboard clean after writing.

@ezotik I have heard of the chromatographic writing system of Edo. Do you by any chance have
access to the pictures?

jantavanta: @ezotik I have heard of the chromatographic writing system of Edo. Do you by any chance have
access to the pictures?

if it is the writing system that incorporated colors into it u are talking about, i know edo people had something of that nature. but unfortunately for in-depth analysis and pictures, im not the go-to guy for such things. most of my comments about edo are just based off my understanding of the language. PhysicsQED is the edo historian in the house that can help u with such things. so u can fwd that Q to him on this thread.
https://www.nairaland.com/582176/benin-art-architecture/17

An Esan guy came up with a writing system in which different sounds are represented by different colors in the 90s, unless it actually existed among the Esan earlier than that. Although I like the creativity behind the idea, I don't think it's something that could ever be practical.

I found images of it on this website.


http://zheulcore./category/writing-systems/

Once again, although I don't think its use for simple and effective communication is feasible, I like the spirit of the idea and the idea that cultural creativity should continue even after colonization. We shouldn't shy away from proposing new or unique ideas.

There's more information on it in the second post on this page:

http://afrikafriend.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=1344&p=2

Thank you. I have seen it. Very interesting.