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An inscription in Maya glyphs from the site of Naranjo, relating to the reign of king Itzamnaaj K’awil, 784-810

The Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs or Maya hieroglyphs, is the writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Presently the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered, the earliest inscriptions found which are identifiably Maya date to the 3rd century BCE in San Bartolo, Guatemala.^[1][2] Writing was in continuous use until shortly after the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century CE (and even later in isolated areas such as Tayasal).

Maya writing used logograms complemented by a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function to modern Japanese writing. Maya writing was called “hieroglyphics” or hieroglyphs by early European explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries who did not understand it but found its general appearance reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs, to which the Maya writing system is not at all related.

Although most Mayan languages utilize the Latin alphabet, Maya writing is still used and taught in some Maya speaking areas of Mexico where it has received official support and promotion by the Mexican government and is taught in universities and public schools in Mayan speaking areas.

Languages

It is now thought that the codices and other Classic texts were written by scribes, usually members of the Maya priesthood, in a literary form of the Ch’olti’ language. It is possible that the Maya elite spoke this language as a lingua franca over the entire Maya-speaking area, but also that texts were written in other Mayan languages of the Peten and Yucatán, especially Yucatec. There is also some evidence that the script may have been occasionally used to write Mayan languages of the Guatemalan Highlands.^[3] However, if other languages were written, they may have been written by Ch’olti scribes, and therefore have Ch’olti elements.

Researchers

Current leaders in the field of interpreting Maya culture and Maya decipherment include many archaeologists, epigraphers, linguists, and art historians. Key names working at present are:

David Stuart at the University of Texas
Dmitri Beliaev, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Diane Chase and Arlen Chase at the University of Central Florida
John Costello, linguist at New York University
Arthur Demarest at Vanderbilt University
William Fash at Harvard University
David Freidel at SMU
Nikolai Grube at the University of Bonn, Germany
Stephen Houston at Brown University
linguists Katherine Josserand (deceased as of 2007) and Nicholas Hopkins
Tom Jones at Humboldt State University
Alfonso Lacadena at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Simon Martin at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
linguist John Robertson at Brigham Young University
Robert Sharer at the University of Pennsylvania
William Sanders of Pennsylvania State University (deceased as of 2008)
Karl Taube at the University of California, Riverside
Dennis Tedlock at the State University of New York at Buffalo
Marc Zender at Harvard, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
linguist Søren Wichmann, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig

and many others, including a growing number of scholars in Latin America, in the nations of the Maya area.

epigrapher Yuriy Polyuhovich, at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
linguist Talakh Viktor at Kiev.

Notes

Bibliography

Links

• Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs by Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke
• A partial transcription, transliteration, and translation of the Temple of Inscriptions text by Michael D. Carrasco
• A Preliminary Classic Maya-English/English-Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings by Eric Boot
• FAMSI resources on Maya Hieroglyphic writing
• Maya Writing in: Guatemala, Cradle of the Maya Civilization
• Mayaweb: Learn how to write your name in Maya Hieroglyphs
• Nova online – ‘Cracking the Maya Code’
• Wolfgang Gockel’s morphemic interpretation of the glyphs
• Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
• Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volumes 1–9. Published by the Peabody Museum Press and distributed by Harvard University Press
• Talakh Viktor (2011-03-19). “Introduction to hieroglyphic script of the Maya. Manual”. www.bloknot.info. Retrieved 2011-03-24.

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