Late Khipu Use
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Late Khipu Use - The Disappearance of Writing Systems |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Frank Solomon; University of Wisconsin–Madison.; United States |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Linguistics; History |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | ancient writing; Khipu; Latin American languages; linguistics |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | P101-410 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; P901-1091 Extinct ancient or medieval languages |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | Quechua khipu (pl. khipukuna) and Aymara chinu (pl. chinunaka), both mean ‘knot’, and both denote objects of cord used in the Andes to store and share information. Peruvian schoolbooks and popular media locate the khipu in a triangle together with Inka rule and Quechua speech. But all three sides of the triangle crumble under research pressure. Dialectology and diachronic linguistics (Cerrón-Palomino 1987: 79–217; Parker 1963; Torero 1974) have shown that the ‘Quechua II’ dialect which served as an administrative language of the Inka state is only one of a family of Quechuas spoken before, during, and after Inka rule. Likewise archaeology and ethnography show that the Inka khipu (Urton 2003), though by far the most common kind of khipu, belonged to a family of fibre-based media originating long before Inka rule (Conklin 2003; Splitstoser et al. 2003) and outlasting it, as we shall see, by over 400 years. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Sep-2008 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | historical and methodological study |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19004 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.19004 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Disappearance of Writing Systems |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Andean South America, 1450 to 1532 CE |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |