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    Chʼoltiʼ) is the oldest historically attested member of the Mayan language family. It is the main language documented in the pre-Columbian inscriptions of the...
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    ballgame, Ollamaliztli, (Nahuatl languages: ōllamalīztli, Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːlːamaˈlistɬi], Mayan languages: pitz) was a sport with ritual associations...
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    Theobroma cacao (category Articles containing Epigraphic Mayan-language text)
    Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01693-3. Dienhart, John M. (1997). "The Mayan Languages – A Comparative Vocabulary" (PDF). Odense University. Archived from...
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  • that Epigraphic Mayan is sometimes listed as an extinct, rather than ancestral, language, similar to how Latin is sometimes deemed an extinct language, rather...
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    Maya script (redirect from Mayan script)
    conquest of the Maya in the 16th and 17th centuries. Though modern Mayan languages are almost entirely written using the Latin alphabet rather than Maya...
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  • an epigraphic and cultural-historical standpoint, and to produce and publish a database and a comprehensive dictionary of the Classic Mayan language. The...
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    Chʼoltiʼ is a dead language belonging to the Ch’olan branch of the Mayan family of languages. It was spoken in Belize and Guatemala prior to its extinction...
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  • drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas. When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it...
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    Phillip Julius (August 2009). "Classic Maya Political Organization: Epigraphic Evidence of Hierarchical Organization in the Southern Maya Mountains Region...
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    from several Mayan languages both those in pre-Columbian use (such as in Classic Maya), as well as in their contemporary descendant languages (in which there...
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    Maya religion (redirect from Mayan religion)
    The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche...
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    Tikal (redirect from Tikal Mayan)
    Tikal (/tiˈkɑːl/; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest...
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    alphabet (and a bilingual list of words and phrases), written in Spanish and Mayan; it allowed the decipherment of the Pre-Columbian Maya script in the mid-20th...
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    Maya warfare (redirect from Mayan warfare)
    including fortified defenses around structure complexes, artistic and epigraphic depictions of war, and the presence of weapons such as obsidian blades...
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  • contemporary Mayan communities. Many of the Mayan caves served religious purposes. For this reason, the artifacts found there, alongside the epigraphic, iconographic...
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    Nikolai Grube (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    an epigraphic and cultural-historical standpoint, and to produce and publish a database and a comprehensive dictionary of the Classic Mayan language. Coe...
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    List of longest-reigning monarchs (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    accession: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In the Mayan calendar, acceded 9.9.2.4.8, 5 Lamat 1 Mol; died 9.12.11.5.18, 6 Etz'nab...
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  • Maya monarchs (category CS1 European Spanish-language sources (es-es))
    and Queens, 2nd edition. Thames and Hudson, London Nikolai Grube 1994 Epigraphic Research at Caracol, Belize. In Studies in the Archaeology of Caracol...
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    Chichicastenango (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    to the 2012 census, 98.5% of the municipality's population is indigenous Mayan K'iche. Of the population, 21% speak only K'iche, 71% speak both K'iche...
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    Geʽez script (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    The earliest inscriptions of Semitic languages in Eritrea date to the 9th century BCE and are known as Epigraphic South Arabian (ESA), an abjad shared...
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    Maya stelae (redirect from Mayan stelae)
    lakamtun, meaning "banner stone", from lakam meaning "banner" in several Mayan languages and tun meaning "stone". According to Stuart this may refer to the...
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    a limited amount of Maya texts could be read in their original language, Classic Mayan, due to an imprecise understanding of the visual nature of the...
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  • World scripts and languages. He followed up this work in 1980 with Saga America and in 1982 with Bronze Age America. Fell's epigraphic work was not well...
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    List of Maya sites (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    W X Y Z Maya architecture List of Mesoamerican pyramids Degradation of Mayan archeological sites The CMHI enumeration of sites with inscriptions and/or...
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    Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ (category Pages with Mayan languages IPA)
    claim. Additionally, epigraphic research published in 2022 demonstrated that Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Mo's dynasty was an offshoot of the Mayan dynasty at Caracol...
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    Piedras Negras (Maya site) (category Pages with Mayan languages IPA)
    from the Late Preclassic period onward, based on dates retrieved from epigraphic information found on multiple stelae and altars at the site. Piedras Negras...
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    Mopan Territory (category Mayan chiefdoms of the Yucatán Peninsula)
    Yucatecan branch languages in the southern Lowlands (Becquey 2012, paras. 8-10). Mopan Mayan is thought to have been the first language of the Yucatecan...
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  • List of oldest continuously inhabited cities (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    author in 982 AD. Kathmandu-Lalitpur, Nepal Nepal  Nepal 2nd century AD The epigraphically attested history of Kathmandu valley begins in the 2nd century....
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with E. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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    Dzibanche (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    dynasty emblem glyph. The name Dzibanche means "writing on wood" in the Mayan language; taking its name from the sculpted wooden lintels of the Temple of the...
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