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Inca people did NOT have a written language, they used pictures to represent words. Like for example they drew timelines of what happened in vases.

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The Incas did not have a written language in the same way that we think of writing today. They used a system of knotted strings called quipu to record numerical data and important information. However, they did not have a formal script or alphabet for writing down spoken language.

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