[SunkenCiv]

if there was an Atlantis and if the south americans are survivors from Atlantis, they would write in the same language as all the other designated survivors from Atlantis. Like the egyptians and sumerians. But despite some spoken words that are similar between these three cultures there are no similarities in writing. Unless.. only the Atlantean elite knew how to write and the common people did not, and the survivors where common people.

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.

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of time for languages to diverge, for other immigrants to enter and settle the Americas, and writing systems to be superseded (as they were in the space of a century or two in the eastern Mediterranean, when cuneiform was abandoned).

And since it was a disaster that claimed the Atlantis of Plato's story, it's a good bet that the entire body of literature went with them (depending on the credence one lends to Edgar Cayce, of course), along with most of the population. Furthermore, while Plato does imply the existence of the Americas in his description of Atlantis, he doesn't mention anything about escaped Atlanteans settling anywhere.

[S0122017]

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of time for languages to diverge, for other immigrants to enter and settle the Americas, and writing systems to be superseded (as they were in the space of a century or two in the eastern Mediterranean, when cuneiform was abandoned).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.