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It's just an example, but this comment: > Then there are cases where it’s not even clear whether something represents a language. An example is the quipus of P
by LeifCarrotson 9y ago
It's just an example, but this comment:
> Then there are cases where it’s not even clear whether something represents a language. An example is the quipus of Peru—that presumably recorded “data” of some kind, but that might or might not have recorded something we’d usually call a language
is slightly out of date: As of December, at least some khipus have been shown to exactly match with Spanish census documents!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-har...