Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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THE ALPHABET Titicaca (Bolivia-Peru). We are informed of the existence of this script by the German ethnologist Tschudi (Reisen in Sredamerika, V, 1869, p. 282 ff.). The script was invented by an old native of Sampaya who was a zealous Catholic, in order to teach his tribesmen the Catholic catechism. The writing was purely ideographic and highly pictographic. The drawing of the signs was very crude. After the death of the inventor, his pupil,
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Fig. 79 1-2, Native pictographic writing of Paucartamba Valley (Peru).
3. Aymara ideographic script. 4, Minahassa ideographic script Juan de Dios Apasa, continued the teaching of this writing, but after the latter's death, the script fell into disuse. Fig. 79, 3 shows a specimen of this Aymară script.
(3) The native Central American tribe Cuna(Tule, person," is the native name), who live mainly in Panama near Darien, numbering about 25.000
