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  2. Maya script - Wikipedia

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    Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function to modern Japanese writing. Maya writing was called "hieroglyphics" or hieroglyphs by early European explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries who found its general appearance reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs, although the two systems are ...

  3. Mesoamerican writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The first major work of Mayan literature known to be originally written in Latin script are the Annals of the Cakchiquels (since 1571). [22] Since the mid 1990s, Maya intellectuals attended workshops organized by Linda Schele to learn about Maya writing, [24] and with digital technologies, Maya writing may indeed face a resurrection. [22]

  4. Maya codices - Wikipedia

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    Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods .

  5. Ancient Maya art - Wikipedia

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    The Maya writing system consists of about 1000 distinct characters or hieroglyphs ('glyphs'), and like many ancient writing systems is a mixture of syllabic signs and logograms. This script was in use from the 3rd century BCE until shortly after the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.

  6. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphs from a superficial resemblance to Ancient Egyptian writing) [285] is a logosyllabic writing system, combining a syllabary of phonetic signs representing syllables with logogram representing entire words.

  7. Mesoamerican literature - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Sampson distinguishes between two kinds of writing. One kind of writing he calls 'semasiographical', this covers kinds of pictorial or ideographic writing that is not necessarily connected to phonetic language but can be read in different languages, this kind of writing is for example used in roadsigns which can be read in any language.

  8. De Landa alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The "alphabet", along with some passages of explanatory notes and examples of its use in Maya writing, was written as a small part of de Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán ("Account of the matters of Yucatán"), which also documented many aspects of the culture and practices of the indigenous Maya peoples that he had seen and been told ...

  9. Classic Maya language - Wikipedia

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    Classic Maya is the principal language documented in the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya, and is particularly represented in inscriptions from the lowland regions in Mexico and the period c. 200—900.