Studying Memo Kantun’s Ritual de los Bacabes led me to a bug in the app. The image shows Memo’s “bakana”, the app’s earlier rendering, and the corrected version. In the older output, the right-side affix glyph was incorrectly oriented relative to the main glyph. This bug affected a lot of writing. Transforming and rendering affix …
I’m studying Memo Kantun’s Ritual de los Bacabes as part of ongoing work to improve the writing generated by the #AncientMayaApp. This is the first in a series of posts about how the app’s approach to ancient Maya phonetic writing is evolving. I started with a very simple word: “bina”, which appears several times in …
Here’s a YouTube video showing the “text editor” feature. Now you can click on the glyph blocks created in on the Write page to change how words are written. The image below shows “otoot” written four different ways. We have big plans for extending the text editor!
On October 27th, something exciting and unexpected happened. Someone in Mexico — someone managing about 300 Apple computers — installed the Ancient Maya App on all of them. I would love to know where this was done and help support whatever they’re working on. A school? A university? A museum? Developers get some basic activity stats from the iOS App Store. I don’t …
The Ancient Maya App, originally built for smartphone, now runs under Windows. Our first test release is in the Windows Store. A few friends are already trying it out and helping identify compatibility issues across different Windows 10 and 11 systems. Everything works except the Read feature — that fix is on the way and …
1. No Collection of Personal Information This Privacy Policy informs you about our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our application. The Ancient Maya App does not access, collect, store, or transmit any personal information from its users or their devices. “Personal Information” includes any data that could …
Double thanks to Prof. Lauren Sullivan! She teaches at both Tufts and UMass Boston. This week we presented our Introduction to Maya Writing Workshop to her Maya History class at UMass Boston. Last week we presented at her Mesoamerican class at Tufts. We’re always grateful for the opportunity to do our little workshop. Here’s a …
We’re building a version of the app that runs on Windows. Specifically Windows 10 or 11 and new versions. If you need support for an older version of Windows, or have any questions, app support is available at ancientmayaapp@gmail.com. The Windows App Store requires a public declaration of the app’s Privacy Policy. It is: This …
Túumben Chuunul is a project and website by Gloria Guadalupe Dzib Kumul. She is a primary school teacher in Kanxoc (near Valladolid). The website has lessons and virtual learning objects for teaching the Maya language to children. Gloria is also a Fellow at Cultural Survival. Here’s how Túumben Chuunul introduces Mayan words for colors: This …
As we’ve discussed, modern Maya languages use sounds that were not written with ancient Maya phonetic glyphs. To write these modern words we need new glyphs. This new release includes 11 glyphs for modern Yucatec. Specifically, main and an affix glyphs for “ch’e”, “ch’i”, “t’i” and “xe”, affix glyphs for “ch’i”, “t’a”, “t’e”. They were created …