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Did the People of Easter Island Invent a Writing System From Scratch?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/research-reveals-the-natives-of-easter-island-invented-a-written-language-from-scratch-180983793/

Smithsonian article linked about the new study: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/research-reveals-the-natives-of-easter-island-invented-a-written-language-from-scratch-180983793/

Study as published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53063-7

Herbal Gamer - 1.8yr

"from scratch"

Bitch all writing systems were at some point invented from scratch

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jordanlund @lemmy.world - 1.8yr

I mean, not really.

The romance languages dervived from Latin. English came from old German and old Dutch.

There are a bare handful with absolutely no antecedents.

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Herbal Gamer - 1.8yr

gotta go back

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