Khipu

Quick meaning: Khipu is a noun meaning Alternative form of quipu.

Meaning

Alternative form of quipu.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• khipus

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quippu, quipo, kopesh, kukuri, knare, tepee.

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