![]() ![]() This suggests to me at least that you'd have quite an uphill battle getting your "rationalized Maya logograms" adopted. Of course with enough ingenuity (and bloodymindedness) you can use any script to write any language, especially if you're willing to make adaptations, but the bigger question is who's buying? Most literate speakers of the Maya languages are literate in Spanish (or English, in Belize) and the Roman script works quite well for these languages on the whole. This wouldn't prohibit reviving the old logograms, but would complicate the process somewhat. Most contemporary Maya languages do still approximate the one syllable = one morpheme pattern that works so well for logographic scripts, but only approximately there are many agreement and valency morphemes that are smaller than a syllable, as well as borrowed roots that are polysyllabic. It's pretty, but it's not easy to learn or use. It doesn't help that the Mongolian script 1) has several minimally differentiated or entirely undifferentiated letter forms, and 2) has a historical spelling system like English's in contrast to the Cyrillic system's much more modern spelling. You'd probably also need an input method editor like that for Japanese or Korean if you wanted to use it with computers - you've got a lot of base characters, and they need to be combined dynamically into larger blocks.Īs for parallels elsewhere, the Mongolian government seems interested in bringing back Mongolian script, but AIUI it's sort of only being halfheartedly promoted and isn't making much ground. As for simplification, I'm sure there's a million ways to do it perhaps you could mimic the development of hiragana - take highly streamlined handwritten forms of the glyphs and canonise them as the basic letter forms. Ch'olti' has lost the uvular series preserved elsewhere in Mayan). I'm not sure how exactly it works certainly Ch'olti' (the language used for pre-Columbian inscriptions) lacks some important phonological distinctions made in major modern Mayan languages like K'ichee' and Kaqchikel (e.g. I've seen at least one modern monument in (I think) K'ichee' written in the script, though I can't seem to track down the source at the moment. ![]()
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