Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
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Second, is the phonetic transliteration of the sign or glyph. This transcription is in bold face; logograms signs representing whole words are in upper case, and syllable signs are in lower case. Third is the transcription of the sign or glyph in Classic Mayan. This transcription represents the syllable, word, or phrase in Classic Mayan, and is recorded in italics within parentheses.
These numbers are preceded by "T" for Thompson and are also recorded within parentheses. An "nn" indicates a "new number"—one not listed in Thompson. The punctuation signs—periods, colons, dashes, and square brackets—indicate the relative position of the signs within the glyph block.
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A period between two Thompson numbers indicates that the second is situated to the right of the first. A colon between two T-numbers indicates that the second is below the first. A dash between two signs indicates that the critical features of two signs are conflated within the one glyph.
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Return to Book Page. Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs by John Montgomery. Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs 4. This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech, and meaning.
About the Author John Montgomery is an illustrator, epigrapher, This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of secured glyphs.
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A long and varied experience in Central America first inspired his interest in the ancient Maya. His glyphic illustrations based on a lifetime of involvement with Maya glyph decipherment. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
The point is that the written system is so complex and the calendar calculations are so complicated that we cannot consider they appeared like that, ready to be used in about BCE and certainly not later. These systems must have required many milennia to be invented and refined, just like Mayan architecture and Mayan technology capable of producing a durable material medium for their language and stories.
It is the same thing with corn that had to be completely genetically modified to become what we know it is that CANNOT reproduce without a human hand to get the grains out of the husk. And we could speak of their ritualistic beverages that are so complicated that they look like some fine art perfume produced by today's chemical laboratories. I think here that the Mayan culture, the Aztec culture, the Toltec culture, the Inca culture could not have evolved from a population coming along with the Clovis migration.
If it took 5, years for the Sumerians to devise their writing system which is child's play when compared to the Mayan system, I believe these Homo Sapiens must have arrived in the Americas before the Ice Age and certainly not late after it. To devise this writing system when the language would have stabilized enough, not to speak of the calendars, the Mayans must have needed at least 15, years, probably more.
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The earlier dictionaries are bilingual Spanish-Mayan or Mayan-Spanish. The initial impetus behind their compilation was so that Spanish priests and friars could learn the language in which they would proselytize, for invariably the situation was one where very few priests were facing the task of converting thousands, even millions, of Indians see The Classification of Mayan Languages. There now exist excellent dictionaries for most of the Mayan languages, both monolingual as well as bilingual, involving other Mayan languages, Spanish, English, German, French, and so on. And, with the advances in our understanding of Maya hieroglyphic writing, Maya hieroglyphic dictionaries have begun to be compiled see Earlier Glyph Dictionaries.
The present online Maya Dictionary is based on the one compiled by John Montgomery This online Dictionary adopts a similar format, and eventually you will be able to toggle between the different categories with ease—such are the advantages of the modern computer. Previous Page Contents Next Page. John Montgomery Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs.