Smithsonian article linked about the new study: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/research-reveals-the-natives-of-easter-island-invented-a-written-language-from-scratch-180983793/
Study as published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53063-7
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“from scratch”
Bitch all writing systems were at some point invented from scratch
I mean, not really.
The romance languages dervived from Latin. English came from old German and old Dutch.
There are a bare handful with absolutely no antecedents.
