The Weirdest Language Of All Time Is FINALLY Being Deciphered

The origin of...macrame!

Quipus - the OG string theory.

No sheep no chickens.

To call this "The Weirdest Language Of All Time" is wrong. It is not a language. It is just a scripting system. The language is still alive as Quechua.
And as you explained yourselves the Inca script is by far not yet "finally" deciphered.
It is kind of clickbaiting. But nevertheless the video is interesting to watch.

This is an area where targeted AI could assist in recognizing patterns and extrapolating based on what is known so far and comparing with similar forms of communication, like the way some African bush dwellers tie detailed messages into branches and leaves along paths.

sir that is not a book, its clearly a rope.

A way of recording information in a multi-dimensional way seems a key to me. I even think thats changing how the brain gets wired. It changes perception of the world. Point in case, it appears that the Incas defined the constellations of stars not by the stars themselves, but by the dark spaces between them. Or try to get the grasp of origami folding patterns, when 2 dimensions turn into 3.

Dude get rid of that "strategic" tone of voice that goes up at the beginning of every sentence and lower as you reach the end of the sentence because it's a real ball buster! What it actually does is, it gives me acid reflex and I start to loose the meaning of what you are saying! I won't subscribe to any channel that uses these kinds of cheap "tricks".

The counting is just like resistor values....so cool.

Knowledge will always be lost so frankly I i dont care if languages are not spoken anymore. Hopefully, one day, all of humanity will speak one tongue under one flag.

That's a woven language

Its the law in Japan nowdays that students have to study English from grade school through high school. During WW 2, the American people learned Japanese, German, & Italian in case the enemy won the war. I was born in 1948 & I learned Japanese from my Aunt & German from my father as a result. To this day Spanish is the official language of Mexico, taught by the Spanish Conquistadores.

Stop bleeping out the audio.

I did knot see that coming.

I take some hope from the decipherment of the Maya glyphs. I hope we'll learn to read the quipus.

Let us not forget that the Inca civilization killed children in human sacrifices. Some had their heads bashed in. Some were drugged and left to freeze to death. Many of their mummified bodies have been found and continue to be found in the mountains.

So wait hang on how does a system of keeping numbers constitute a language

How does learning and changing the language you speak magickly erase you're heritage? Im pretty sure if all of the State of Texas learned spanish they would still want a wall up, and if they didn't that would prove singular language solved a problem associated with heritage... Sometimes you have to shed weight to move forward, and honestly most places I go different words from different languages are used in tandem with mostly english or spanish. If you think about it that way, thean the most popular languages are just becoming more rich with more and more synonyms, tense's, Gender imprintation ("El" "La") ect. let's make language stew.

string theory takes on a whole new meaning

They had a base 10 numbering system? That seems rather odd.

Huh? Isn't this like standard information in school?

Knot ,Tie ,Twist ,Loop ,Splice ,Bow ——. Tangle ,tangle ,tangle. Knot,Tie,Twist,Loop,”how does it go again “?

"It's a bunch of strings with knots. Nobody knows how to read them."
Well I'm not surprised, scooter they don't teach string and knot reading and writing lols 🤣🤣😁😁. History repeats itself. One of the worst thing mankind does is dwell on the past only to repeat the same thing anyway.

Document forgery must have been hell

when you try to send the taxes to your government but you only have blue string:

As a child I've learned that you can tie a knot on your wrist to remember stuff. I wonder now if this idea was a remnant of any language system that has died out

Got to love the consequences of Europe killing millions of people and forcing any group they didn't like but didnt want to kill, to speak English.

I find languages dying out very sad. I think there should be one or a few universal languages (English, Spanish, Esperanto?) and then a drive for every country to also keep their native tongue alive. Wales is a good example of how the state and education and culture drives can help achieve this. Welsh was dying and is now gradually increasing every year in wales. I hope Quechua and it's culture can be kept alive.

You probably won’t see this but you literally saved my academic career with this video, I was in a slump struggling to find cultures who have endangered languages for my end of the year essay, and then I stumbled on this video and found what I needed! Thank you so much❤❤❤

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Ursula K LeGuin- "Author of the Acacia Seeds..." is a fantastic notion of none-human communication- but it shows how tunnel-visioned we get about our approaches- this knotted communication is damned interesting...

Cuniform, kipus, hieroglyphics: all communication styles adapted to the tumultuous weather after the floods

People in the distant future are going to only find our emojis and spend decades trying to decode them.

Khipus didn't just go extinct after the spaniards invaded. The colonial adminstration actually used khipus for a while, because they basically just took over the former inca administration.

I agree that understanding these doomed languages should be done; however, they should also be allowed to evolve or even die. Otherwise, you'll get the whole "preservation" regime where a building can't be torn down because it's historically "significant" based on someones opinion. This means stasis and in the limit no new real estate.

There's a sweet spot here... save some but not too much -- and I know that's also subjective. No one before the modern era cared about saving old buildings... these things MUST SERVE those who are alive... that's a tall order for most buildings and most should ultimately be demolished and the new should be brought in. Ruins are fun to a point -- i.e., let's keep the Pyramids at Giza; however, preserving a piece of real estate because X happened HERE in year Y is asinine. For Kryst's sake, take a photo or video and move on!

So this is where the show "See" got the idea for their language. (Highly recommend you watch it FYI)

Wait doesnt india alone have 2k recorded languages .is the 7k number ryt?

Wooooh yahgan mention

Funny story. I was in fact born on the 24th day of the 4th month of the year....do i at least get a cake?! Perhaps a 👍

That is knot a language.

This language, like so many others, was not "lost" or "forgotten". They were intentionally extinguished by European colonialism. Thinking that we should all have fewer languages for convenience, and of course those languages being those of colonizers, is inherently racist (intentionally or not). I point this out not to troll but to being attention to how important it is to be intentional about the way you speak about history.

I remember learning about quipus in Asia and that apparently it was brought to the Americas over the land bridge back when the first humans crossed it? I might be completely wrong tho

Is it a language or a record keeping system?!?!?!

with a language disappearing not only encoded written information is lost, but that information stored in the actual (spoken) language itself, too. Worldviews and ideas distill into words and sayings.

Proud to say I'm Inca 🫡

Anyone suspect that the student who began to break the code is autistic? Autism is heavily represented in my family, and we tend to be obsessed with solving problems and puzzles. And we’re pretty good at it.

I found the cavalier attitude towards colonization and dying languages too off-putting to get far in this video

This is honestly much smarter than written paper or stone or clay tablets. The blind and deaf can read it you don't need a separate pencil pen or ink, it's more durable and lighter materials. Honestly, that type of written language is more advanced.

Something that you would never know unless you speak more than one language is that language has flavor, it has individual and unique humor, idioms, poetry and connections that are completely unavailable to non- speakers. I moved to Mexico in my twenties. Before that time, I only spoke Englsh. Learning Spanish opened me up to the humor, liturature, a deeper experience of the culture. From there, I began to learn Mayan and Nahuatl, two indienous languages still spoken in Mexico today. Especially Mayan which is thriving in communties in SE Mexico where some never learned the Spanish of the colonizers. Mayans nearly beat the Mestizo colonialist society and took back the Yucatan penninsula in what came to be known as The Caste War. 1850's, but American colonies got involved. When the rainy season came, soldiers went village to village murdering the rebellious natives and thus ended the most successful bid for emancipation of enslaved indigenous peoples of the Americas in modern history. The native fighters tied their European tormentors tothe barred windows in Valladolid, and disemboweled them! They got as far as the oytskirts of the Capitol, Merida, and the rainy season came and they all had to go home and plant or their families would all starve. Fascinating!