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	Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Writing and hieroglyphics
		Maya glyphs represented words or syllables that could be combined to form any word or concept in the Mayan language, including numbers, time periods, royal names, titles, dynastic events, and the names of gods, scribes, sculptors, objects, buildings, places, and food.
		Most ancient Maya could not read, because the knowledge of reading and writing was jealously guarded by a small elite class, who believed that they alone could interact directly with the gods and mediate between the gods and the common people.
		Maya glyphs were also painted on codices made of either deer hide or bleached fig-tree paper that was then covered with a thin layer of plaster and folded accordion-style.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/maya/mmc04eng.html (0 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Maya language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the Spanish language (and in Belize the English language) is the official language of the area today, dialects of Maya are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 3 million people in the region today.
		The group is sometimes known as the Mayance languages, a coinage that reflects the belief that the current Maya languages bear the same relation to the speech of the classical Mayan civilisation as the Romance languages have to the speech of the Roman civilisation.
		The Huastec language is considered to be in the Maya language family, although it is distant both linguistically and geographically from the rest of the language family.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ma/Maya_language (358 words)

	Yucatec Maya language
		Yucatec Maya is a Maya language spoken in the Yucatan Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala.
		To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - Yucatec is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as the Quiché language and the Lacandon language).
		This was introduced during the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan; the Spanish language alphabet was used with the addition of a couple of extra symbols, such as the "x" borrowed from Portuguese for the "sh" sound, and in colonial times a reversed "c" was often used for the sound now more usually written "dz".
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/y/yu/yucatec_maya_language.html (314 words)

	Classic Maya language
		The Classic Maya language is the oldest historically attested member of the Maya language family.
		It is the language documented in the Pre-Columbian inscriptions of the Classic Era Maya civilization.
		Classic Maya is written in the descendant of an Olmec script, and is one of only a handful of original writing systems.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/cl/classic_maya_language.html (177 words)

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		The Maya were one of the most brilliant and powerful cultures known to Mesoamerica, indeed their civilization spanned a period of 3,000 years.
		The Maya also thought that the Moon and Sun gods were the parents of humans (the Sun god was the father and the Moon god was the mother).
		One of the examples of beauty that the Maya practiced, was that they pressed their children's faces (width wise) when they were young, so that when they were older they'd have some beauty in them.
	www.mayanet.hn /copan/English/Culture/culture.htm (0 words)

	Mayan Language Family
		Today, the largest populations of Maya speakers can be found in the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Chiapas, and in the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
		Maya languages are ergative, i.e, the subject of a transitive verb has one form (called the ergative case), while the subject of an intransitive verb has a different form -- the same form as the object of a transitive verb (the absolutive case).
		The pre-Columbian Maya civilization developed a writing system that represented the language of the Maya people spoken at that time, which is known today as Classical Maya.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/November2005/mayan.html (0 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maya Indians
		Maya again broke out in general rebellion, with the declared purpose of driving all the whites, half-breeds and negroes from the peninsula, in which they were so far successful that all the fugitives who escaped the wholesale massacres fled to the coast, whence most of them were taken off by ships from
		Maya cult was in strong contrast to the bloody ritual of the Aztec.
		Maya states, or tribes in Southern and Eastern Yucatán, the most important being the hostiles of the Chan-Santa-Cruz district, estimated at not more than 10,000 souls as against about 40,000 at the outbreak of the rebellion of 1847.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10082b.htm (0 words)

	GOULD1.HTM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		About 1000 B.C. the Maya began to speak a language which is the forerunner of the many Maya languages spoken today, and toward the end of the Pre-Classic period, about 100 A.D., the Maya language was first expressed in written form as evidenced by engravings which appear on stone monuments.
		The Classic Period of the Maya civilization, the golden age, carried on for at least 650 years, ending in 900 A.D. The great cities of the southern lowlands of the Maya territory were constructed of limestone masonry and included stone monuments, such as pyramids, to house the remains of the dynastic rulers.
		As to the Maya text, Thompson, being an ardent anti-phoneticist, contended that the inscriptions on the monuments, the Maya glyphs, did not reflect a spoken language but rather were idiographs which related to mystical and mythological occurrences and astronomical and calendrical events.
	www.chilit.org /GOULD1.HTM (4731 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: local music The Maya of today
		In our times the Maya culture is regarded as one of the most remarkable on the planet because of its technical and scientific achievements in various fields of knowledge.
		In Yucatán, the use of the Maya language and indigenous clothing is accepted in all sectors of society As the famous Yucatecan poet, Mediz Bolio said, the Yucatecans are a people who speak in Spanislh and think in Candles Maya'n.
		The Maya stock in Chiapas is represented in various ethnic groups, from the elusive Lacandons, through the Chols, to the very numerous Tzeltals and Tzotzils.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com /english/cultura_y_sociedad/fiestas_y_tradiciones/detalle.cfm?idpag=59&idsub=62&idsec=15 (713 words)

	Autodesk - Autodesk Maya - Features
		Maya 2008 introduces considerable performance improvements and a number of new features that will make modeling workflows significantly more efficient.
		Maya 2008 now streamlines iterative skinning workflows by enabling you to modify the skeleton of a bound character, without having to rebind it after, thus preserving any work done after the skeleton was bound.
		Maya 2008 uses the latest mental ray 3.6 core, a release that boasts dramatic performance improvements in the translation of polygon meshes and instances for rendering, as well as for IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering) startup.
	usa.autodesk.com /adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7635643 (0 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Maya
		In reality, Maya glyphs are read in "paired columns", meaning that the first glyph block is on the top left, the second is immediately to the right of the first, the third is under the first, the fourth under the second, and so forth.
		In Maya languages, vowels can also be complex, meaning that they can be long, glottalized (followed a glottal stop), or aspirated (followed by the /h/ sound).
		The Mayas, on the other hand, heard the syllables "ah", "beh", "seh" (as "a", "b" and "c" would be pronounced in Spanish), and so forth, and naturally gave the glyphs with these phonetic values.
	www.ancientscripts.com /maya.html (0 words)

	MESOAMERICAN WRITING SYSTEMS
		Archaeologists have used the decipherment of Maya writing to change their reconstruction of Maya societies from peaceful, cerebral astronomer-farmers, to more bloody rulers who went to war to capture and sacrifice neighboring leaders in order to keep the cosmos running and the food supply of maize coming.
		Maya script also touches on matters as diverse as Classic Maya folk classification, the average life spans of the elite, and the attribution of provenance to looted monuments.
		The symbols are motifs that are not language dependent and may be found in other regions of Mesoamerica, such as the speech scroll that is emitted from the mouth of a human or animal to represent speech or a sound.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/humanorigins/writing.html (0 words)

	Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
		Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre was officially established in 1987 when Aboriginal people of the Pilbara came together to discuss how they could save Aboriginal languages of the region and educate others about Aboriginal languages and culture.
		The languages that they speak are many and complex, reflecting the richness and diversity of traditional Aboriginal life.
		ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) is the major ongoing sponsor of Wangka Maya assisting in the ongoing administration of the centre and in project work, such as Restitution of Materials, Publishing and Recording Endangered Languages.
	www.wangkamaya.org.au /index.htm (0 words)

	CULTUREFOCUS: Ancient Maya. Pictures and history of Tikal, Palenque, Chichen Itza.
		The Maya of central America reached remarkable intellectual and artistic heights during the Classic period of their great civilization, between around AD 250 and 900.
		While Maya civilization was collapsing in the central and southern lowlands toward the end of the Classic period, it continued to flourish further north in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
		The cult of the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl was introduced and the deity became known to the Maya as Kukulkan.
	www.culturefocus.com /guatemala.htm (1017 words)

	Yucatec Maya
		Yucatec Maya is documented in the ancient hieroglyphs of Pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites such as Chichen Itza and has a rich literature through the Spanish Colonial period.
		The language traces back some 5,000 years, and is thought to have been derived from a common ancestor, referred to as Classic Maya.
		Today, Yucatec Maya is used in the Yucatán by some 700,000 people both as a first language in rural and as a second language in urban areas.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/November2005/yucatec.html (0 words)

	Mayan art and books on preHispanic archaeology and ancient artifacts of precolumbian Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and ...
		Sub-areas of the Maya are the Chenes, with Santa Rosa Xtampak being an important ruin.
		In the beginning archaeology was a search for buried treasure, tombs, and gold, or in the case of the Maya, for jade and polychrome painted vases.
		Scholars who study art history of the Maya area usually practice what is known as iconography, the study of meaning in art.
	www.maya-art-books.org (0 words)

	MAYA: Millennial Language of the Americas
		Maya adheres to modes of expression common to the majority of native American tongues.
		That from the highlands to the lowlands and throughout the Yucatan Peninsula, one language was spoken by all of the people with a few, if any, regional variations.
		The Spaniards imposed their language on the Yucatecan Maya over 500 years ago, yet Maya has influenced Spanish more than it has been effected by it.
	www.mayadiscovery.com /ing/notes/mayan-language.htm (0 words)

	A Comparison of Maya and Oracle Bone Scripts Visible Language - Find Articles
		Maya script and Oracle Bone script are described and compared in terms of relationship between glyph, sound and meaning, glyph composition and grapheme positioning.
		The Maya script is a logo-syllabic writing system used in the Mayan area, encompassing present day southern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize (figure 3) from the first century B.C. to the time of the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century.
		Scholars of Maya and Oracle Bone scripts have developed their own specialized vocabularies for describing the smaller units out of which whole texts were composed.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3982/is_200601/ai_n17189192 (0 words)

	Quia - Class Page - Mayan Language Module
		Strong determinism is the extreme version of the theory, stating that language actually determines thought, that language and thought are identical.
		Language influences the way we perceive and remember and, generally, it predisposes us to look at the world in a certain way.
		After you have read and examined the information presented in the previous websites about the Maya and their culture and civilization, try to think of words that might be highly important in Mayan culture and everyday life (like the snow example for the Eskimos).
	www.quia.com /pages/maya.html (0 words)

	The Maya and Mormonism
		Early Darwinistic ideas of evolution invaded the world of linguistics, causing many 'experts' to believe that language (particularly written language) had evolved from a pure (and lowest) pictographic form (each picture is an entire thought, without a syllabic form) to the eventual top of the food chain: the alphabet.
		Both the Maya and ancient Egyptians had "an analogous practice" of celebrating important anniversaries and jubilees by the "ritual shedding of their own blood by the ruler and his wives" (pg 67).
		Their scribes were represented by the monkey, who was the "patron god of the artisans, musicians and dancers....the Maya elevated them to a godlike status, just as the Egyptians took the baboon-god Thoth as patron of their scribes and the art of writing." (pg 226).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/5499/bom/mayacode.html (0 words)

	A Maya Glossary - Maya Info
		Maya kings frequently listed one of the titles as being a ball-player.
		Maya books were composed in a fan-fold manner with paper coated with lime.
		A Maya technique of measuring time that designates a Katun that a particular event occurred in.
	www.mayainfo.org /glossary/default.asp (0 words)

	PBS Teachers . Early Childhood . Celebrate Language and Cultural Diversity with Maya & Miguel
		The mission of this inspiring series is to present a contemporary Latino life rich in cultural traditions, language, and perspectives, closely representative of today's multicultural urban family and community for children, ages 6 to 8.
		Incorporating Maya and Miguel into the classroom setting provides educators with academic and cultural perspectives that encourages young minds to learn new and native language acquisition and develop culturally and socially in age-appropriate ways.
		New and native language acquisition is nurtured as vocabulary is introduced in two languages and spoken language is encouraged through personal, social, and cultural interactions.
	www.pbs.org /teachers/earlychildhood/articles/mayaandmiguel.html (0 words)

	Mad Mel and the Maya
		He speaks Yucatecan Maya so eloquently that when young people who have begun to lose their language and culture first hear him, they shed tears for what has been and what can be in the Yucatán.
		In the language of prejudice in Mexico, the Maya are said to be people with big heads and no brains, too short, too dark and with a strange, laughable Spanish accent.
		Maya nationalists think the hotels and tourist packages that use the word "Maya" or "Mayaland" (a translation of Mayab) should pay for what they appropriate for their own use.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20061218/shorris (0 words)

	Yucatec Maya Sign Language
		They determined that this sign was, indeed, a language and that a notable feature of the social scene was the Deaf persons' integration with the community on almost all levels, save one.
		As before, these children are not sent to boarding schools to learn Mexican Sign Language and no particular notice is given their condition by local doctors and government workers.
		Further questions about this language and community may be directed to Hubert Smith (husmith@charter.net) or Robert Johnson (robert.e.johnson@gallaudet.edu).
	www.sil.org /mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/04i-LSMayaYucateco.htm (0 words)

	Learn Maya (Quiche), Maya (Quiche) Windows, Maya (Quiche) Office, Maya (Quiche) Software, Maya (Quiche) Dictionary, ...
		Maya, the language of the great Maya civilization that flourished more than a thousand years ago, is still spoken in various forms by several million people in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, and British Honduras.
		Maya proper, sometimes called Yucatec, is spoken by about 450,000 people on the YucatAn Peninsula of Mexico as well as in northern British Honduras.
		The Maya hieroglyphs, a sample of which appears at the right, have posed a formidable challenge to scholars and linguists ever since the 16th century.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/MayaQuiche.htm (0 words)

	Language Log: Making Yucatec Maya "cool again"
		Yucateco, or maya yucateco, is the Spanish term for Yucatec, or Yucatec Maya, a language spoken by about a million people in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula (with some additional speakers in Belize and northern Guatemala).
		One blurb for the book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 says that in the fateful year "a new age is expected, one in which humanity will mutate spiritually into a new relationship with space-time and the material universe." Whether Apocalypto relates to these fanciful theories is perhaps known only by Mr.
		Yucatec Maya is not a direct descendent of Classic Maya, nor is it the modern Maya language most closely related to Classic Maya (often referred to as Ch'olan).
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002631.html (0 words)

	Maya Vocabulary Maya-English-Spanish MayaWorld Studies Center YUCATAN MEXICO
		Nevertheless, to assimilate an indigenous language, the structure of which is so different from Spanish or English, is a daunting task and one which regrettably few have attempted.
		Using his own profound knowledge of the Maya language, as well as his command of Spanish and English, he has drawn on the recognized Mayan Dictionaries to select 5,300 most useful words in Maya with their most common meaning in English and Spanish.
		Most anthropologists are in agreement that to save a native culture, the mother language must be actively preserved and used in everyday life.
	www.mayacalendar.com /mayavocabulary.html (0 words)

	Maya language and culture
		We salute you from the legendary land of the maya in Yucatán, México...
		Maya, group of related Native American tribes of nations of the Mayan linguistic stock, living in Mexico, in the states of Veracruz, Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas, and also in the greater part of Guatemala and in parts of Belize and Honduras.
		Maya Calendar Software In 1989 I considered the question of whether a correlation between the Maya Calendar and that in common use, the Gregorian Calendar, could be established by considering eclipse dates.
	www.lonweb.org /link-maya.htm (0 words)

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