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A comment on Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off. Parent comment

Re:Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunam... by munk-a on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:02PM (#31077788)
Are we still not counting wampum belts or khipu as a written language? I know that those are both very different from how we comprehend written languages but there is significant evidence to support that they were used in the process of imparting information (whether that be treaties, legends, or statistics)
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Re:Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunam... by anonAndOn on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:04PM (#31078298)
A language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary.[0] I don't think NA wampum or totem poles would be considered written language by that definition. Khipu aren't found in NA, AFAIK.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language

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