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New Release: More Yucatec Phonetic Glyphs

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 …

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Yucatan Trip

Deb, Tommy, Benjamin and I are traveling to Yucatan! We arrive in Valladolid on Feb 7th. We arrive in Mérida on Feb 7th and leave on Feb 19th. Yay! We have lots of time to meet with friends working on language revitalization, supporting modern Mayan languages, the Unicode standard, creating materials for introductory workshops on …

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Lengua Yucateca : Yucatec Language

Durante los últimos 1500 años, los sonidos que utilizan los hablantes mayas han evolucionado. Las lenguas mayas modernas incluyen algunas sílabas que no se utilizaban en la antigüedad. Para escribir estos nuevos sonidos, tenemos que ampliar ligeramente el silabario antiguo. Estamos trabajando con el epigrafista maya Jesús Guillermo Kantún Rivera para apoyar la escritura del …

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