@JoshuaBarzon This map shows the modern scripts used today. Some of these languages originally used a different script and later switched to another. Brahmi's origins remain a matter of active dispute today.
@benjimk You can do that if labor is cheap. I knew a guy who, 40 years ago, was buying old, broken photocopy machines and sent them to Vietnam to be rebuilt.
@realMaalouf There was actually a larger internal African slave trade. systems, estimates are:
Atlantic 12-15million
Arab 9-17 million
Internal African trade 18+ million