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> Van: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
> Onderwerp: Mayan Writing
> Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 11:50
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> rnierse@anwb.nl writes:
> >I am very much intrigued by Maya hieroglyphs. They have about the same
> >thing: symbols (for syllables) are placed together to form a block. I
> >wanted to make something like that: words existing of one form that has
> >encoded all sounds of that word, but I never succeeded. Gladilatian has
> >something like that (I have no URL) : one form per syllable.
>
> Well in reality Mayan is a lot more involved than that. For instance,
this
Yes I know the site. She really can explain it clearly (although it is not
complete, but that's the result of being resumptive).
>
> Mayan hieroglyphic writing is made up of symbols that represent whole
> words (logographs) or syllables consisting of consonant-vowel pairs (CV)
> or vowels (V).
Actually, it is (CV) and (?V) and (Vh). This last one is needed because a
(Yucatec) Mayan words is not allowed to end with a vowel. It took me quite
some time to find that out!
>
> Anyway it's an interesting page. The whole domain has a lot of stuff on
> Mayan culture. That page I quoted is a part of the pages on the writing
> system. The author talks about how one can go about writing their name
out
> in Mayan (just off of the sounds, not how it would be done if you were
> talking to a scribe). It really goes fairly deep into the writing system
> without being stuffy and scholarly :) (i like that!).
I give lectures on Mayan writing sometimes, and indeed her site helped me a
lot to get less scholarly!
Fascinating writinghg system, isn't it?