ChinOliva, this is a very concise --and unusually accurate-- introduction/explanation of the way Maya hieroglyphs work. It's hard to keep any such lesson so short! Congratulations! Best to you, Mark Van Stone, (author of "Reading the Maya Glyphs" and "2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya")

@LS-tp3sh

3 жыл бұрын

This is Amazing! My Class Teacher even told me to watch this as it helps so much!

@LS-tp3sh

3 жыл бұрын

But I am in 2021 and you added that comment when I was 1 years old (2011

@LS-tp3sh

3 жыл бұрын

I am in 2021 and there is a pandemic going on.

Maya Tsotsil: Toj lek ta ilel li video li'i. Kolaval buch'u la spas xchi'uk buch'u la smuyes li'toe. Li vo'one jsa'be smelol stalel xkuxlej ti vo'ne mayaetik. English: Thank you for posting this video here. I like it very much for I'm interested on Maya culture, specially writing system. Greetings from Mexico!

The stacking reminds me of Hangul, the Korean writing system, which is quite clever to say the least..........

Hopefully when more cities are discovered and excavated then scholars can find the most concise way the signs were written so modern maya speakers can use it again. I've heard the signs found are closer to extreme calligraphy.

if i had a penny for every pixel in this video, i'd have a dime

Awesome video - concise and focused. I will be using in my lesson (I teach 10 and 11 years olds in the UK).

@Matsutom I've suspected that myself. The Catholic church claiming that the writings were burned could have also served to keep any future historians or archaeologists from searching for for any of the writings.

i have mayan blood, my dear mommy was from Chiapas, mayan region

@SEMYAN.09

3 жыл бұрын

coooool （⊙ｏ⊙）

@FediTheJoker Many languages the use syllabaries, like Japanese, have words with "echo vowels". This comes from the mechanics of the writing system. E.g., every syllable is written, but not necessarily spoken.

whos hear 13 years after this was posted😂😫

@malikhadi695

4 жыл бұрын

Me

@meesamkhan4767

4 жыл бұрын

me

@meesamkhan4767

4 жыл бұрын

yeah this was youtube back then look what it is now..

Hey I am very curious about Mayan language..I am learning Pipil Nahuatl and the Aztec dialects look very similar to me (if not, the same)..I want to know if with Totsil, you can understand Yucatec, Tseltal, huastec as well because i saw the scrips and translations but I don't see any similarities.

Great!

Such a magnificent writing system. But so terribly inefficient...

Hi , NeCacaluXuxultic! I've also learned some Nahuatl in Mexico City. I've been told that Pipil is somehow not a different language but a Nahuatl dialect. Otherwise Tzotzil and Tzeltal are two different languages. There is not mutual intelligibility but they have many similarities like Italian and Portuguese or Italian. Yucatec and Tenek are more distant. They all belong to the same linguistical family though. The degree of proximity is not the same like French and Spanish, for example.

any info behind the video

I'm only watching this because it says on my school work

@tamweiwen You need to buy a world map and some art history books. They're VERY different.

Really!? DAMN, how did the Mayan even communicate?

how write the glyph " Ba-ka-ka-aw or Ba with chocolate

@fragolegirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

la71 cao look up famsi Montgomery Mayan glyph dictionary in google. There you can see your syllables in Mayan glyphs

@fragolegirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

Or click on this link www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/montgomery/index.html

This is as old as I am.

@LS-tp3sh

3 жыл бұрын

I know right.

@BloodTar some of it, most of it was saved and belongs to the vatican at the moment. These are my conclusions.

Yet another crime of Catholicism... keep reforming, Francis

The mayans were the only humans on earth that had sooo much knowledge of the Universe and Aliens..!!

Kukulcan

Mayan and Tamilan had used one language-!1- Appan ( அப்பன்), = Father, 2- Pallan ( பலம்),= Strange ( English), 3- Pakal ,( பகல்),= Day time ( English), 4/ Tollilali (தொழிலாளி),= Labor ( English). 5- Nall( நாள்),= Day ( English), 6- Yar Cathan ( யார் /Who,+ Cathan /Saved/helped,(!யார் காத்தாள்-Tamil), 7- Cham ( சாம்),= Kiss, 8/Patha lalogam ( பாதாள்லொகம்),= Underground World, Mayan kill/ put them in Pathala logam ( Jail), or Mayan Family /Tamilan Family god called as-( Kula Divam /Kula Kkhan),

dislike dislike dislike dislike dislike

Terrible inefficient language.

@pimpompoom93726

Жыл бұрын

The language is efficient, the writing system not so much.