But do indigenous peoples have writing? Some writers would say yes. The Easter Island (Rapa Nui) tablet writing Rongorongo is said to have high correlation with the Indus Script from Northern India, thanks to trade, commerce, and migration across large bodies of waters over many centuries.
izua maretimaljimalji a vinecikan i kacauan.
In English:
There are many different writing systems in the world.
Glossary:
- izua: there is
- maretimaljimalji: the root is "malji" (different, bizarre). [mareti-malji-malji] means very different, replicate indicates a strong degree.
- vinecikan: the root is "vecik" (word, embroidery, tattoo). [v-in-ecik-an] means the thing that has been written down, that is writing.
- i: phrase marker for location
- kacauan: the world
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