Now you can convert Mayan text to glyph blocks. Type in a word like “otoot” or a sentence like “Ko’ox kanik u masil Maya” and have it instantly written in phonetic glyphs in glyph blocks. Here’s a an example:
You can share the glyph blocks over email, WhatsApp, text messages, etc. This is a preliminary release and we expect there are errors. If you see any mistakes or have suggestions, please use the Feedback button. The user interface will also display in Spanish.
There’s a short video demo of the feature, a blog post on its limitations and a deeper dive on how it works.
Special thanks to Tommy for having a great idea and collaborating on its development, to Karla for connecting us, to Tokovinine for permission to use his glyphs, to Kuttunen and Helmke for their information on transliteration and to Unicode for their (preliminary) definition of glyph blocks.
Update: 2.5.1 release fixed a bug where some affix glyphs were drawn facing away from the main glyph.