What are some of the oldest known North American documents written in a non-European language?

by gettinsloppyin10fwd
estherke

The first post-contact documents written in a non-European language were most probably Jewish community documents pertaining to weddings and such, which are traditionally written in Hebrew. A small Sephardic Jewish community lived in New Amsterdam from the 1650s onwards. From at least 1695 this community, called Shearith Israel ("remnant of Israel"), had its own synagogue.

CommodoreCoCo

The earliest thing that one could call documents are the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices from the Post-Classic Maya (~1000-1200). We do have historical evidence for early codices destroyed by the Spanish, and images of scribes writing codices, that date their use to the beginning of the Classic Maya period (~300-400). They are all written using the Mayan hieroglyphic script and mostly describe astronomical, astrological, and calendrical phenomena.

Mictlantecuhtli

If you extend document to engraved items I would say the Epi-Olmec texts that Kaufman and Justeson have attempted to translate.

Searocksandtrees

hi! you may not be quite what you're looking for, since both originals have been translated and one lost, but you may be interested in these examples: