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Did the People of Easter Island Invent a Writing System From Scratch? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Microw@lemm.ee to c/anthropology@mander.xyz
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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

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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

"from scratch"

Bitch all writing systems were at some point invented from scratch

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

gotta go back

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