Thaindian News

By Meena Kar
Sep 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS)- A letter, buried in the ruins of the Magdalena De Cao Viejo Church, El Brujo Archaeological Complex in northern Peru showed evidences of an extinct language. Although the letter was dug out from the ruins in 2008, the researchers kept it leashed, as they wanted the journal “American Anthropologist”, to publish it, after rigorous research and full information about the language.

The research shows that this language existed about 400 years ago in the Northern Peru, around the Andes Mountain region. The main inhabitants of this region was the Dominican friars, who resided in that place for over two centuries. This letter was written in this mysterious language and had its Spanish and Arabic translation in its flip side. However, the archaeologist found some similarities and influences of a language called Quechua, which was an ancient language Spoken in the Andes several years ago. They believe, that this language could be the scripted form of either “Quingnam” or “Pescadora”, a language of the fishermen of the Northern Coastal region of Peru, as mentioned by ancient Spanish navigators in several ancient scriptures. So far, no documentation of these languages were recovered from any excavation sites until the archaeologist of Peru discovered them two years back.

Jeffrey Quilter, an archaeologist at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology said that this must be the residue material of a library or an office belonging to a church, which was once destroyed by the Spanish invaders back in the 17th century. He is also glad to have discovered an old language, as that would enrich the rich cultural history and diversities that existed in ancient colonial America.