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	Rongorongo script and the Rapanui language
		The people of Easter Island were possibly inspired to invent the Rongorongo script after seeing the writing used by the Spanish when they annexed the island in 1770.
		Rongorongo was used until the 1860s, after which knowledge of the script was lost.
		Rongorongo was used be priests to write a limited range of rhetorical statements and helped to reassert their authority.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/rongorongo.htm (303 words)

	Easter Island/Rapa Nui
		Rongorongo is a word in Rapanui having to do with sharing messages or information.
		Rongorongo writing was carved mostly on wood, but some small samples exist on stone.
		However, for a very different idea of Rongorongo, its origin and meaning, visit the intriguing website of Steven Fischer's interpretation, a nice man we met at our hotel and who is a tour leader, author, and recognized expert on Rapa Nui.
	www.sergeking.com /Rapanui/rapa13.html (642 words)

	Rongorongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rongorongo or ko hau rongo rongo ("chants" or "lines of recitations" in the Rapa Nui language, because they were probably chanted by chieftans or scribes) is one of three scripts of Easter Island (or Rapa Nui as it is known by its inhabitants), the others being the ta'u and Mama scripts.
		The number of these signs, which she numbers at less than 70, suggests that Rongorongo may be a syllabary augmented by perhaps a dozen logograms, as 55 would be required for a pure syllabary of ten consonants and five vowels (10×5 consonant-vowel syllables plus 5 vowel-only syllables).
		The Concept of Rongorongo Among the Historic Population of Easter Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rongorongo (1944 words)

	Easter Island: land of mystery (3)
		Rongorongo now survives only as markings on 25 pieces of wood scattered around the world’s museums, though other tablets might still be hidden in the island’s sacred family caves.
		Some researchers have argued that the rongorongo script is not ancient but was invented by the islanders after the Spanish visit in 1770, when a written proclamation of annexation was offered to the chiefs and priests for them to sign.
		Rongorongo specialist Thomas Barthel speculated that the script originated on the Polynesian islands of Huahine or Raiatea and he believed it came to Rapa Nui with Hotu Matua.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/easter3.htm (8972 words)

	Several Rongorongo Records (Symbolism of Archaic Beliefs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A new portion of the rongorongo records (the famous script of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui) is examined.
		Interestingly, some terms of the rongorongo texts are registered in the Rapanui place names, too.
		In accordance with the legend "Hiva Kara Rere, the rain god" (Felbermayer 1963), a priest raised the arms (rima haro) for the arrival of rain-laden clouds (rangi ua).
	www.anthroglobe.ca /docs/Sergei/Rongorongo-records.htm (4304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		rongorongo puzzles I accept the native Rapanui tradition that rongorongo writing was known on the island from the ancient times.
		The basic fact about rongorongo is that it is widely believed to have been a vital and important part of a living Easter Island cultural tradition up to 1860's.
		Nevertheless, the contribution of Barthel to the study of rongorongo is very considerable indeed, since, for the first time, he published and analysed all the available texts, and laid the basic technical groundwork for all further research.
	www.trends.net /~yuku/tran/a2.htm (1789 words)

	Rapa Nui/Easter Island Primer - Rapa Nui writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rongorongo glyphs also figured among the inventory of special tattoos for the rongorongo experts.
		On the staffs and tablets, every other line of rongorongo appears upside down; this orientation forces the reader to rotate the artifact 180 degrees at the end of each line of glyphs, evidently to enable continuous reading and to avoid confusing the parallel lines.
		At a cursory glance, rongorongo offers a fanciful parade of hieroglyphics, and for over 130 years many eminent scholars from many nations have burned the midnight oil in attempting to discover what this hieroglyphic parade celebrates.
	www.apj.co.uk /rapanui_primer/primer_rapanui_writing.asp (741 words)

	Rongo Rongo Tablets, Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
		Most rongorongo, as the unique objects were subsequently called, had by then been burnt, hidden away in caves, or deftly cannibalized for boat planks, fishing lines, or honorific skeins of human hair.
		The names of over a hundred rongorongo experts have survived, along with many accounts of pre- missionary rongorongo rites and customs that were still in living memory in the second decade of the twentieth century.
		Others were convinced that rongorongo represented a vestige of the once magnificent library of the so-called "lost continent of Lemuria." In the 1960s and thereafter, we have often been informed that, like Easter Island's stone statues themselves, the celebrated moai, rongorongo had been carved on the island by the laser beams of visiting extraterrestrials.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /easter_island/about_destin/rongorongo.asp (6247 words)

	Rongorongo or the Hieroglyphs of the Easter Island Tablets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rongorongo or the Hieroglyphs of the Easter Island Tablets
		Rongorongo is the name for the hieroglyphic script of Easter Island, engraved on oblong wooden tablets, of which only a few have survived.
		Also known as Rapanui and Te Pito O Te Henua, Easter Island is a tiny volcanic island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean half-way between Tahiti and the coast of Chile.
	www.rongorongo.org (306 words)

	rongorongo: Approximate Matches
		Note that the longest length we found an approximate match under these conditions was 125 glyphs, between recto line 2, glyph 36 of the Great Santiago and recto line 2, glyph 0 of the Small St. Petersburg.
		The data for the corpus and the images were retrieved from the excellent rongorongo website.
		The matches were computed over a "reduced" version of the Barthel set, which is essentially the Barthel set with the various diacritics removed.
	compling.ai.uiuc.edu /rws/ror (1106 words)

	LEGENDARY SURFERS: Rongorongo Tablets
		Samples a few millimetres in length and in width and a few tenths of a millimetre thick were also removed by the author with a razor blade from St Petersburg tablet, Aruku Kurenga and Mamari tablets.
		Macroscopic observation shows that these seven rongorongo are carved in the direction of the wood fibres, that is perpendicularly to the ligneous rays.
		Only the dating of other rongorongo tablets in Thespesia populnea wood would make it possible to better determine their age and, in consequence, to put forward reliable hypotheses about the antiquity of rongorongo writing which, without any doubt, constitutes one of the most original features of Rapa Nui culture.
	legendarysurfers.com /blog/2006/05/rongorongo-tablets.html (2756 words)

	Laputan Logic
		Most rongorongo, as the unique objects were subsequently called, had by then been burnt, hidden away in caves, or deftly cannibalized for boat planks, fishing lines, or honorific skeins of human hair.
		This is principally because rongorongo is Oceania's only indigenous script that predates the twentieth century and because it represents one of the world's most eloquent graphic expressions...
		Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui or Rapanui, with its statues and with its unique writing system (known as Rongorongo), has provided such fertile breeding ground for various crackpot theories, from sunken continents to alien visitors, that a short introduction is necessary.
	laputan.blogspot.com /2003_04_27_laputan_archive.html (2941 words)

	Rongorongo
		But there have also been claims that rongorongo is actually a syllabary once you figure out how to decompose it into the right number of basic units (around 70 for Rapanui).
		The ethnographer Alfred Métraux proposed that Rongorongo is a mnemonic device rather than a way of representing the Rapanui language directly, though he later backed away from that belief, due to Barthel's work.
		If Rongorongo is like Dongba, then the hopes of ever deciphering significant portions of it are slim indeed.
	catarina.ai.uiuc.edu /L408/rongorongo.html (2260 words)

	Aspects of Easter Island
		The kohau rongorongo or Easter Island tablets were once thought to be a mnemonic device but the recent researches of Dr. Thomas Barthel have shown that the script is a system of ideograms.
		They have not been fully interpreted but their contents relate to ritual and traditional matters and one tablet is thought to be a catalogue of the content of others.
		In examining the vast body of work on Easter Island and in particular the Rongorongo, one would have to contemplate on the extensive and often complex research undertaken by outsiders directed towards unlocking the mysteries of the Rongorongo.
	www.janeresture.com /easter_aspects/index.htm (833 words)

	Two Systems of Symbolic Writing
		It is known that the Rongorongo script was not used for ornamental purposes, but that the inscribed tablets called kohau rongorongo were recited publicly on special occasions with a religious purport.
		The language that is expressed by the signs is known in the case of Rongorongo as being Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui nowadays, though not identical in grammar and words with the Rapanui that is presently spoken there.
		The elements of the Rongorongo sign for sky are the sign for white and for hibiscus that cannot be regarded as a candidate for the world tree.
	www-user.uni-bremen.de /~ushanas (22100 words)

	Easter Island Decipherment
		Fischer says that contrary to earlier suggestions that the script was a mnemonic device to help priests commit ritual texts to memory, rongorongo was a sophisticated writing system, the only indigenous script in Oceania before the twentieth century.
		In the 1950s the German scholar Thomas Barthel concluded that individual rongorongo glyphs did not represent an alphabet or even syllables, but were cues for whole words or ideas.
		Unlike Barthel, Fischer believes that rongorongo was a mixed writing system incorporating logograms (symbols denoting words) and semasiograms (symbols denoting actions).
	www.archaeology.org /9607/newsbriefs/easter.html (250 words)

	Asian and African Studies 2/98
		An attempt is made here to prove that rongorongo does not reproduce coherent texts, creation chants, rituals, etc., as has been conjectured so far.
		The new endeavour to analyse the rongorongo signs is based on the accessible astronomical knowledge of Micronesia and Polynesia.
		The present approach, then, provides the possibility to explain nearly all existing rongorongo signs, which hitherto was held to be an illusion.
	www.aepress.sk /aas/aas298.htm (736 words)

	Rongorongo by Sergei V. Rjabchikov
		Rongorongo Records of Wooden Clubs Ua and Paoa
		I have been studying the Easter Island writing system for many years, and need badly any information about rongorongo inscriptions engraved on Rapanui artifacts (tablets, stones, pendants, skulls and so on).
		I hope that the enthusiasts will continue an active search for new "talking artifacts" (including rongorongo tablets) in private collections and on Easter Island.
	rongorongo.chat.ru /index.htm (399 words)

	Rongorongo by Sergei V. Rjabchikov
		I study the Easter Island (Rapanui) ethnology and culture as well as the Easter Island writing system (rongorongo).
		I have been studying the Easter Island writing system for many years, and need badly any information about rongorongo inscriptions engraved on Rapanui artifacts (tablets, stones, pendants, skulls and so on).
		I hope that the enthusiasts will continue an active search for new "talking artifacts" (including rongorongo tablets) in private collections and on Easter Island.
	rongorongo.chat.ru (399 words)

	Some Easter Island rongorongo scripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		rongorongo records (the famous script of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui) is examined.
		rongorongo texts are registered in the Rapanui place names, too.
		RONGORONGO, Easter Island” Home Page on the World Wide Web: .
	www.anthroglobe.ca /docs/easter.htm (2799 words)

	Easter Island Photos
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		The replica of a Rongorongo tablet that I bought from a woman at the base of Rano Raraku.
		Notice the strong resemblance between this figure and some of the Rapanui glyphs above.
	www.sergeking.com /Rapanui/ei12.html (59 words)

	Rongorongo script by Sergei V. Rjabchikov
		This home page was selected as a featured site in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web on June 1999 - for other citations, go to http://www.studyweb.com/
		The real hieroglyphic script, rongorongo, is a feature of its ancient culture.
		For more information see my RONGORONGO Home Page and my article (1998-1999) Several Rongorongo Records (Symbolism of Archaic Beliefs).
	geocities.com /script_rongorongo/index.htm (579 words)

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