North Africa was populated by Canaanites during the Ice Age (which followed Noah’s Flood), from the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean to the Atlas mountains and beyond, they brought the semitic tongue to Africa having been adopted probably from the Habiru, the Hebrews, perhaps during the days of Heber himself not long after the Tower of Babel in the Middle East. Sir Alan Gardiner deduced that the languages Oromo and Somali are similar in many ways to ancient Egyptian, the language of Ham’s son Misraim, and Kush (another son of Ham) today is represented by the language of the Beja tribe of Ethiopia, the other dialects of that group quickly diversified by wide ranging south into all of Africa.
