writings on birch bark

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• Wiigwaasabak — (Ojibwe language, plural: wiigwaasabakoon ) are birch bark scrolls, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America wrote complex geometrical patterns and shapes. When used for ritual purposes, these scrolls are called mide wiigwaas .… …   Wikipedia

• Old Novgorod dialect — (Russian: древненовгородский диалект, also translated as Old Novgorodian or Ancient Novgorod dialect) is a term introduced by Andrey Zaliznyak to describe the astonishingly diverse linguistic features of the Old East Slavic birch bark writings (… …   Wikipedia

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• Writing material — refers to the materials that provide the surfaces on which humans use writing instruments to inscribe writings. The same materials can also be used for symbolic or representational drawings. Building material on which writings or drawings are… …   Wikipedia

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• Old East Slavic — рѹсьскъ rusĭskŭ Spoken in Eastern Europe Era developed into the various East Slavic languages Language family Indo …   Wikipedia