quipu
IPA: kwˈɪpu
noun
- A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
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Examples of "quipu" in Sentences
- He misidentifies the quipu as Aztec in origin.
- The Amerindians used quipu and adored many gods.
- The Spanish quickly suppressed the use of the quipu.
- He published briefly on the quipu system of the Inca.
- One strand on a quipu can therefore contain several numbers.
- Quipu is the Spanish spelling and the most common spelling in English.
- So far as known, the quipu was the only mnemonic system in use in Peru.
- The "quipu," a knotted reckoning-cord, was in use in Peru and in China.
- Each quipu had a main cord that had several different colored strings to it.
- More primitive uses of the quipu have also continued in the Peruvian highlands.
- Have rural information systems - the Incan quipu, the Australian songline - had the same status as urban ones?
- They did not have a written language; instead they used a cord with beads on it, called "quipu", used to record government business.
- The Incas of Peru, before the Conquest, had a whole system of “writing” based on a variation of knots in colored strings, the “khipu” or “quipu.”
- While the Inca developed a basic system of counting using bundled knotted strings known as quipu and an elaborate calendar, they did not use writing.
- It's possible that the majority of English speakers who know the word quipu pronounce it "kwipu", but most of them know it only as an obscure piece of historical trivia.
- A quipu was a cord two feet long, composed of differently coloured threads twisted together, from which were hung a number of smaller threads, also differently coloured and tied in knots.
- Really, the word quipu scarcely enters the English language at all, unlike quinine or the edible seed quinoa, which if its current popularity continues may well end up pronounced kwiNOa in English KEENwah is preferred for the time being.