khipu

Borrowed from Quechua khipu.

khipu (plural khipus)

1. Alternative form of quipu
   • 2003 August 12, John Noble Wilford, “String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing”, in The New York Times‎:

     But a more searching analysis of some 450 of the 600 surviving khipu has called into question this interpretation. Although they were probably mainly accounting tools, a growing number of researchers now think that some khipu were nonnumerical and may have been an early form of writing.

   • 2010 August 16, Simon Romero, “High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive”, in The New York Times‎:

     Few of the world’s so-called lost writings have proved as daunting to decipher as khipus, scholars say, with chroniclers from the outset of colonial rule bewildered by their inability to crack the code.

• (Cuzco-Collao) IPA^(key): /kʰɪ.pʊ/,

khipu

1. (Cuzco-Collao) Alternative form of kipu

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