What the Mayan language reveals
Mayan language
The Mayans were the only perhaps the only indigenous peoples of the Americas that had a written language. And what it revealed was a powerful civilization marked my rituals and blood.
The Language
Mayan languages were written in the Maya hieroglyphic script. Some of the script were sounds and others words. The surviving body of written language consists of over 10,000 known individual Maya inscriptions. In addition there was a post colonial language written in the Latin alphabet and even a surviving Spanish Mayan dictionary. Therefore we have a rich understanding of the Mayan civilization through their written language.
What the Mayan language tells us
“Modern specialists have also been able to declassify Mayan calendars, as well astronomical data and the system of calculation - scientists were amazed to see how precise they were. One of the ancient calendars counted 18 months, 20 days each, 360 days in total, which were followed with five “unlucky” days. Specialists presumed that the Maya were a peace-loving nation that was spending the majority of their time looking up at the sky and watching stars. ” But read more to find the real story. Mayan language
I believe as we learn more about the Mayans though their language they will continue to fascinate us.
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