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Mayan languages: Just the facts... Brown (1991) argues that *c'ihb may be the ancient Mayan term for writing but, it can not be Proto-Mayan because writing did not exist among the Maya until 600 B.C. This was 1500 years after the break up of the Proto-Maya (Brown, 1991). This idea is also confirmed by Mayan oral tradition (Tozzer, 1941), and C.H. Brown (1991) who claimed that writing did not exist among the Proto-Maya. The Mayan /c/ is often pronounced like the hard Spanish (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) /c/ and has a /s/ sound. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mayan_languages.htm   (849 words)

About Mayan Languages These are  not dialects, but separate languages that can be traced back about 4,000 years to a single language that has been reconstructed and called Proto-Mayan. In addition to the complexity of so many Mayan languages, there is another factor which must be dealt with in learning about the languages, that of different spelling conventions. This language  may have begun in the mountains of northwest Guatemala and, as time went on, diverged into dialects and finally separate languages. mayamayan.homestead.com /about.html   (459 words)

Numerals, Numeration, and Numerical Notation Bibliography Kuttner, Robert E. Convenience does not explain the use of the Mayan duodecimal numeral system. Laki, K. The number system based on six in the Proto Finno-Ugric language. www.phrontistery.50megs.com /nnsbib.html   (459 words)

Royal Nubia lies under sand This provides the best hypothesis for the origin of the Mayan term for writing given the fact that the Mayan /c/ corr eponds to the Manding /s/, and the archaeological and linguistic evidence which indicate that the Maya did not have writing in Proto-Mayan times. In addition to the Manding origin of the Mayan term for writing, there are a number Mayan terms that are derived from the Olmec language . Wiener (1922) based his identification of the Manding influence over the Olmecs (eventhough he was unaware of this people at the time) through his identification of Manding writing on the Tuxtla statuette which was created by the Olmecs (Soustelle, 1984; Tate, 1995). www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/670846/posts   (5921 words)

The Decipherment of the Olmec Writing System Brown (1991) argues that *c'ihb may be the ancient Mayan term for writing but, it can not be Proto-Mayan because writing did not exist among the Maya until 600 B.C. This was 1500 years after the break up of the Proto-Maya (Brown, 1991). This Olmec writing is called the Southeastern or Isthmian tradition (because it originated at Olmec sites in the highlands of Guatemala), and probably influenced both the Izapan and Mayan styles of writing. We summarize the decipherment of the Olmec writing. www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/8919/decip1.html   (6332 words)

Learn Yucatec Maya at UW! Today four million people speak one or more of 28 Mayan languages descended from a proto-Mayan ancestral language, spoken before 1500 BC. Yucatec Maya - also called Maya t'aan or "Maya speech"-is the most widely spoken Mayan language with around a million speakers in areas such as Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Belize. Yucatec is a tonal language that builds nouns and verbs from a relatively small set of basic root words, most of which are relatively simple that are then modified by adding additional syllables to create related sets of words. polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /lacis/new/programs/yucatec.htm   (254 words)

Afrika Olmeken The evidence of Wiercinski that West African people had been settled among the Olmecs, and the evidence of a Manding substratum in the Mayan languages all supported the view that the inventors of the Mayan script were the Manding speaking Olmec people. Bambara term for writing "se'be'", are analogous in sound support a Manding origin for the Mayan term for writing. Olmec or Manding people formerly lived in North Africa in the Saharan Highlands : and Fezzan.(see C. Winters, "The Migration routes of the Proto home.wanadoo.nl /dberents/afrika_olmeken.htm   (1576 words)

Learn Yucatec Maya at UW! Today four million people speak one or more of 28 Mayan languages descended from a proto-Mayan ancestral language, spoken before 1500 BC. Yucatec Maya - also called Maya t'aan or "Maya speech"-is the most widely spoken Mayan language with around a million speakers in areas such as Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Belize. Yucatec is a tonal language that builds nouns and verbs from a relatively small set of basic root words, most of which are relatively simple that are then modified by adding additional syllables to create related sets of words. polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /laisp/new/programs/yucatec.htm   (254 words)

MAYAN LANGUAGES: BIBLIOGRAPHY             T.C. Smith Stark, l976, "Some hypotheses on syntactic and morphological aspects of Proto-Mayan." in M. McClaran (ed.)  Mayan Linguistics I. Fox, l978, Proto-Mayan Accent, Morpheme Structure Conditions and Velar Innovations. (contains many fine articles dealing with all aspects of Mayan cultures. How and why are women more polite: some evidence from a Mayan community. www.utexas.edu /courses/stross/ant389_files/maylanbib.htm   (2779 words)

Ancient Mesoamerican Writing (sans frames) The carved inscriptions are thought to be Chol or some variant proto-mayan language, while the codices are thought to represent spoken Yucatec mayan. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing preserves a vast body of material, and is the only one thought to represent a fully enunciated phonetic script. The documentation and study of the Borgia group codices will be a key area for content at this web site. pages.prodigy.com /GBonline/ancwrite-old.html   (2779 words)

Symbolism Between 2500 and 700 BC later scripts were used for varying periods in the Indus Valley of Pakistan, in Crete (Cretan hieroglyphic and Linear A and B; the Phaistos Disc), in the Sinai (Proto-Sinaitic), in Palestine and Lebanon, and in Syria and Anatolia (Hittite hieroglyphic). Some scripts, for example, the Mayan and Aztec, were composed almost entirely of ideograms; each sign was read as the name of the thing represented or of a closely associated concept evident from the context. Hieroglyphic scripts tended to survive when, as with the Egyptian and Hittite systems, they originated in and continued to be used for monumental inscriptions in temples, tombs, and other structures. www.elohim-god.net /symbolism.htm   (2779 words)

Cryptography Michael D. Coe classifies the entire Proto- Mayan languages. Knowledge of linguistic relationships is often valuable to determine the events of the past 5000 years. English, a member of the Germanic branch, is more closely related to German and Dutch than it is to Italic or Romance languages such as French and Spanish. www.threaded.com /cryptography5.htm   (8809 words)

Justeson et. al Gregorian equivalents of these epi-Olmec dates, expressed in the so-called "long count" calendar, are based on a 584,265 correlation constant, making them 18 to 20 days earlier than the corresponding Mayan dates would be under the two variants of the almost universally accepted correlation of that system with European chronology. In proto-Sokean, as it would be reconstructed from surviving in the epi-Olmec language; MG = morpheme-by-morpheme gloss of www.sciencemag.org /feature/data/justeson.shl   (8809 words)

Astronomical links tying Polynesia to America "...the Mayan day Chiccan corresponds to Proto-Polynesian Filo, and Chicchan means 'twisted serpent';...Filo, which means "twist, thread," is the name of the Polynesian god of thieves...In Samoa, Filo is a name given to Castor (one of the stars of the constellation of the Twins or Gemini)..." (Sullivan, p.184) solo.manuatele.net /astronomy.htm   (6051 words)

NPS AEP: Kennewick Man According to Greenberg, it includes in addition to Sahaptian (with Klamath/Modoc), Tsimshian, Chinookan, Kalapuyan and other "Oregon Penutian" languages, the California Penutian languages, the Gulf languages (located mostly in the southeastern United States), and the Mixe-Zoque and Mayan languages in southern Mesoamerica. Ancestral Cayuse speakers could have occupied the lower middle Columbia, though it is more likely to have been occupied by speakers of some language ancestral to Proto-Sahaptian and Cayuse. Beyond the Plateau, we find Penutian languages in western Oregon (Kalapuyan languages in the Willamette Valley, etc.), throughout much of California ("California Penutian"), down the Columbia River from The Dalles to the coast (Chinookan), and represented by the northwestern outlier, the Tsimshian family up along the Northwest Coast to southeastern Alaska. www.cr.nps.gov /aad/kennewick/Hunn.htm   (6051 words)

similarities between mayan and egyptian pottery Scholars point to the resemblance between the Guanche or proto-Guanche, Egyptian, and Mayan cultures... Despite his efforts to show similarities between Mayan glyphs and Latin, however, he... Although there may have been limited contact between Egyptian and Mayan cultures, a point that has yet... www.amazingpotteryinfoguide.com /16/similarities-between-mayan-and-egyptian-pottery.html   (6051 words)

THE BURDEN OF OFFICE: A READING1      Palenque and Jonuta are probably Cholan speaking sites during the Classic Period, and if the ihkatz glyph collocation is in fact represented at either of these sites, it constitutes evidence suggesting that Cholan had a reflex of Proto-Mayan *ihq-atz  'cargo, load, burden' that did not survive into modern times. Lintels 1 and 5), apparently being held back then, as we can see graven in stone, with the same reverence that is evident during change of office ceremonies nowadays in Tenejapa (Figure 1).   If this hypothesis is valid, it means that the different Classic Maya sites must be studied mindful of their potential individuality with potential reference to at least three different languages, Cholan, Yucatecan, and Tzeltalan. www.utexas.edu /courses/stross/papers/burden.htm   (2363 words)

Numerals, Numeration, and Numerical Notation Bibliography Brice, William C. A comparison of the account tablets of Susa in the Proto-Elamite script with those of Hagia Triada in Linear A. Kadmos 2: 27-38. Kuttner, Robert E. Convenience does not explain the use of the Mayan duodecimal numeral system. Adkins, Julia E. Historical and analytical study of the tally, the knotted cord, the fingers, and the abacus. phrontistery.info /nnsbib.html   (2363 words)

Untitled Document 2000 BC: Huastecas and other proto-Maya cultures in Mexico ca 850-900: Great Mayan cities of Central America deserted Settled Agriculture: 5,000 BC 5000 BC: Agriculture begins in Mexico. www.thenagain.info /WebChron/americas/americas.html   (129 words)

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