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 by epigrapher Guillermo Kantun and are used with his permission. This is release 2.5.12. Here’s a screenshot with Memos glyph’s integrated with Tokovinine’s:

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