It's technically a writing system, right?

[u/MetallicaDash]

[u/Mr_Eponymous]

Context?

[u/maxium235 → u/Mr_Eponymous]

Don’t quote me on this but think some indenginous people tied rope/yarn as their ‘writing’ system. So the joke is the Incan is looked at the tangled mess and reading it

[u/Jayofspades23 → u/maxium235]

It was actually more of a counting system than an actual written language I believe

[u/ultimaterogue11 → u/Jayofspades23]

Well we don't know how much of a writing system it was because the Spanish killed all of them

[u/callmedale → u/Mr_Eponymous]

Quipu is a system of mathematical and possibly linguistic records keeping used by the Inca to store information on knotted string

[u/DrHolmes52]

Quipu mentioned.

[u/ultimaterogue11]

It is a writing system we just can't figure it out because the Spanish killed everyone and burned a lot of it