{"id":673,"date":"2025-01-17T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/?p=673"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:17:35","slug":"tuumben-chuunul-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"T\u00faumben Chuunul\/New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gloriagdk7.wixsite.com\/odasmayas\" title=\"\">T\u00faumben Chuunul<\/a> is a project and <a href=\"https:\/\/gloriagdk7.wixsite.com\/odasmayas\" title=\"\">website<\/a> by Gloria Guadalupe Dzib Kumul.  She is a primary school teacher in <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanxoc\" title=\"\">Kanxoc<\/a> (near  Valladolid).  The website has lessons and virtual learning objects for teaching the Maya language to children.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\/news\/what-are-our-youth-fellows-3\" title=\"\">Gloria<\/a> is also a Fellow at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturalsurvival.org\" title=\"\">Cultural Survival<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how T\u00faumben Chuunul introduces <a href=\"https:\/\/gloriagdk7.wixsite.com\/odasmayas\/copia-de-xokp-eelalo-ob-1\" title=\"\">Mayan words for colors<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"646\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NewBeginningsColors.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NewBeginningsColors.png 646w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NewBeginningsColors-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is so fun and engaging!  I could not resist using our app&#8217;s Write feature to write these color words in the ancient\/traditional system.  It works pretty well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-472x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-668\" width=\"236\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-472x1024.png 472w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-138x300.png 138w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-768x1665.png 768w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot-945x2048.png 945w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WriteColorsScreenshot.png 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blocks of the old glyphs are read two columns at a time, from left to right.  Reading in that order, these are the words for green, yellow, read, black, blue and white.  For even more fun, I used our app&#8217;s Read feature to decode the glyph block for white, sak in Mayan.  Here&#8217;s the app (this time in Spaniish) showing the glyphs for &#8220;sa-ka&#8221; translate to &#8220;blanco, puro&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-472x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" width=\"236\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-472x1024.png 472w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-138x300.png 138w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-768x1665.png 768w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot-945x2048.png 945w, https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ReadColorWhiteScreenshot.png 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gloria Guadalupe Dzib Kumul&#8217;s project is incredible.  If you know how I might contact her, please ping me!  I&#8217;d love to learn more about her goals, her needs and talk about roles for technology in language revitalization.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00faumben 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&#8217;s how T\u00faumben Chuunul introduces Mayan words for colors: This &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/?p=673\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T\u00faumben Chuunul\/New Beginnings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsallgoboldly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}