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Paddington 3 features a HIDDEN language - so, can you decipher it?

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Paddington in Peru features a hidden language called khipu in the film.

The Incans used a knot language to write messages using knots in cords.

The language was used to record accounts and ledgers during the Incan empire.

Some researchers believe it could have been used to write poems, histories, and songs.

Experts are now beginning to unlock the secrets of this fiendishly complex ' three -dimensional language'.

In Paddington in Peru , the knotted khipu contains a written message which can be translated as if it were any other form of language.

Professor Hyland was invited to the remote village of San Juan de Collata , deep in the Peruvian Andes , in 2015 , where the villagers had preserved two ancestral khipus from the late 18th century .

The villagers believe they contain narrative letters created by local chiefs during a rebellion against the Spanish but no outsiders had ever been permitted to see them.

Instead, by combining different materials, colours, and twisting directions these khips could contain 60,000 different types of thread.

This complex 3D language likely emerged in the same way.

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