The History of the writing did not vary since the 15e century at our days. The theory according to which the scriptural characters gréco-Romans come exclusively from the signs of writing phenician which derive from the Egyptian hiéroglyphes seems a Truth with the impregnable ramparts. The writing could be born only in zones with imposing civilizations in fact, Egypt and the Close relation and Middle-East

And if these imposing civilizations owed their size only with populations comming besides - Africa and the Western Mediterranean - since millenia?

The geometrical signs forming the Latin alphabet and entering the Phenician alphabet will not appear in the East - then dominated by the Akkadienne wedge-shaped writing - which following massive invasions from the West Mediterranean . And it is the following of this immersion that will create the phonetic alphabets in Phénicie, one wedge-shaped and the other linear.

Can one then regard the signs as U V C X N W I E Z L M S T of the oldest Berber potteries , engravings and cave paintings of the Atlas, Tassili, the African and European megaliths, like simple graffiti of no importance or already formed lines of ignored writing?

The theories on the Writing evolution evacuate a little too quickly the Libyque - ancient North-African writing , nowadays disappeared -, and make it derive from the Phenician. And if it were the Libyco-Berber writing from which was born the oldest phenician, appearing towards 1400 before Jesus-Christ following uncontrollable invasions? It is time to integrate Libyque in the evolution of the Writing in order to allow the scientific rigour of all the geometrical signs of the ancient Mediterranean a better analysis and which knows, perhaps a deciphering of the writings remained dumb up to that point.

Mebarek Slaouti Taklit, L’alpahbet latin serait-il d’origine berbère ?, L’Harmattan, 2004. 350 pages. The author, Mrs MEBAREK TAKUT is teaching linguistics at the French department of the university of Algiers. For more than ten years, she has been interested in the ancient Mediterranean writings and more particularly in Libyque, old Berber writing, nowadays disappeared in North Africa.