"khipu" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Quechua khipu.",
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          "word": "quipu"
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          "ref": "2003 December 8, John Noble Wilford, “String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "But a more searching analysis of some 450 of the 600 surviving khipu has called into question this interpretation. Although they were probably mainly accounting tools, a growing number of researchers now think that some khipu were nonnumerical and may have been an early form of writing.",
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          "ref": "2010 August 16, Simon Romero, “High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Few of the world’s so-called lost writings have proved as daunting to decipher as khipus, scholars say, with chroniclers from the outset of colonial rule bewildered by their inability to crack the code.",
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        "Alternative form of quipu"
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