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Actually, that isn't a reasonable conclusion to draw, it's just a series of straw men. But it's clear you were just having fun.

Only partially.

Since Plato -- the fountainhead of the story -- places Atlantis a very long time ago, there has been plenty of time for languages to diverge, for other immigrants to enter and settle the Americas, and writing systems to be superseded (as they were in the space of a century or two in the eastern Mediterranean, when cuneiform was abandoned).

10 000 years may seem like a long time. But seeing as how the oldest example of classic Egyptian hieroglyphs is already 5 300 years old, 10 000 isnt much time. And older forms are dated to even further back. Also, pictograms found in the Negev desert are clear predessors of both Hebrew and Egyptian hierogrlyphs.

If the sumerians and egyptians are both descendants from one culture, than that language would have changed completely in mere 4000 years, leaving no examples of intermediate stages.

Unless that pictogram language of the Negev desert was the language of Atlantis ofcourse. In fact, i believe some people have suggested it may have been the first language.