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- Rongorongo abstract "Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/; Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, none successfully. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, not even these glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history.Two dozen wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions, some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged, were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections. None remain on Easter Island. The objects are mostly tablets shaped from irregular pieces of wood, sometimes driftwood, but include a chieftain's staff, a bird-man statuette, and two reimiro ornaments. There are also a few petroglyphs which may include short rongorongo inscriptions. Oral history suggests that only a small elite was ever literate and that the tablets were sacred.Authentic rongorongo texts are written in alternating directions, a system called reverse boustrophedon. In a third of the tablets, the lines of text are inscribed in shallow fluting carved into the wood. The glyphs themselves are outlines of human, animal, plant, artifact and geometric forms. Many of the human and animal figures, such as glyphs 200 Glyph 200 and 280 Glyph 280, have characteristic protuberances on each side of the head, possibly representing eyes.Individual texts are conventionally known by a single uppercase letter and a name, such as Tablet C, the Mamari Tablet. The somewhat variable names may be descriptive or indicate where the object is kept, as in the Oar, the Snuffbox, the Small Santiago Tablet, and the Santiago Staff.".
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- Rongorongo wikiPageExternalLink 14%20paques%201996.pdf.
- Rongorongo wikiPageExternalLink 16%20Easter%20Island%20english.pdf.
- Rongorongo wikiPageExternalLink TheMysteryOfEasterIsland.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageExternalLink Universal-Iconography-in-Writing-Systems.pdf.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageExternalLink easter_island_qr_2008.pdf.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Allography.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Austronesian_languages.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Bishop_Museum.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink CEIPP.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Calendar.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834–1968).
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Cherokee_syllabary.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Chilean_National_Museum_of_Natural_History.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Chilean_corvette_OHiggins_(1866).
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Chimera_(mythology).
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Congregation_of_the_Sacred_Hearts_of_Jesus_and_Mary.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Ethnology.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Father_Sebastian_Englert_Anthropological_Museum.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Fijian_language.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink File:Rongorongo_K-v_London_(edge).jpg.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink File:Santiago-Staff-Compare-I12.jpg.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Florentin-Étienne_Jaussen.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Fluting_(architecture).
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Genealogy.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Hakluyt_Society.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Hippolyte_Roussel.
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- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Hotu_Matua.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Jacob_Roggeveen.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink James_Cook.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Journal_of_the_Royal_Anthropological_Institute.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Katherine_Routledge.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink King_Ngaara.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Kings_of_Easter_Island.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Kon-Tiki_Museum.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Kunstkamera.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Logogram.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_calendar.
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Makemake_(deity).
- Rongorongo wikiPageWikiLink Malay_language.