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  2. Maya script - Wikipedia

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    Though modern Mayan languages are almost entirely written using the Latin alphabet rather than Maya script, [3] there have been recent developments encouraging a revival of the Maya glyph system. [citation needed] Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function to modern Japanese writing.

  3. Classic Maya language - Wikipedia

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    Classic Maya (or properly Classical Chʼoltiʼ) is the oldest historically attested member of the Mayan language family.It is the main language documented in the pre-Columbian inscriptions of the classical period of the Maya civilization. [1]

  4. Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan - Wikipedia

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    The project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan (abbr. TWKM) promotes research on the writing and language of pre-Hispanic Maya culture.It is housed in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn and was established with funding from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. [1]

  5. Mesoamerican writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The writing system used is very close to the Maya script, using affixal glyphs and Long Count dates, but is read only in one column at a time as is the Zapotec script. It has been suggested that this Isthmian or Epi-Olmec script is the direct predecessor of the Maya script, thus giving the Maya script a non-Maya origin.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas. The civilization is also noted for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.

  8. 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.

  9. Proto-Mayan language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Mayan is the hypothetical common ancestor of the 30 living Mayan languages, as well as the Classic Maya language documented in the Maya inscriptions.While there has been some controversy with Mayan subgrouping, there has been a general agreement that the following are the main five subgroups of the family: Huastecan, Yucatecan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Kanjobalan-Chujean, and Quichean-Mamean.