{"id":439,"date":"2024-08-01T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2024-09-23T12:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:33:20","slug":"supporting-modern-mayan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/?page_id=439","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Modern Mayan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ancient Maya App translates ancient Maya words into glyph blocks. For example, you can enter “Ko\u2019ox kanik u masil maya” and it is converted to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This works for ancient Mayan words. But, languages evolve over time. When new phonetic sounds are added they can’t be written with the existing symbols. Groups like Mayas for Ancient Mayan<\/a> deliver workshops<\/a> on writing in the traditional style. New monuments are erected with the old writing. The stela commemorating Oxlajpiq\/Oxlajb\u2019ak\u2019tun<\/a> in Iximche<\/a> is an excellent example. We will collaborate with the communities doing this work to understand how they are writing modern languages with old glyphs. We will also understand how modern Mayan languages are written using the Spanish alphabet. We will analyze one modern lowland language (Maayat’aan\/Yucatec) and one modern highland language (K’iche’). Each of these languages has an official orthography<\/a>. From each orthography we obtain a required phoneme<\/a> list. By comparing the modern phoneme list to the ancient Mayan syllabary identify new sounds that require new glyphs. Then we collaborate with epigraphers that are native speakers to create new glyphs. In some cases a modern lowland language and a modern highland language added the same phonemes (as both were influenced by Spanish). In these cases we will use the same new glyphs across all modern languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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