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I wonder how intelligible classical Maya is with modern Maya languages/points on the Maya continuum. For instance, does the classical word for fox share any res
by vector_spaces 3mo ago
I wonder how intelligible classical Maya is with modern Maya languages/points on the Maya continuum. For instance, does the classical word for fox share any resemblance to any Maya word for it today?
I can imagine it going either way really but would probably guess there was vastly more drift in the case of Maya. I would naively guess that the printing press would have a dampening effect on language drift, and that the kind of repression of both the language and culture under colonialism would encourage it.
- yorwba 3mo agoThere is an entire scholarly article focusing on a logograph for wax "grey fox" that also briefly discusses descendants in modern languages: https://classicmayan.org/portal/editor/uploads/1055_prager_2021_a_logogram_for_wax_grey_fox_in_maya_hieroglyphic_writing_final.pdf https://classicmayan.org/portal/editor/uploads/1055_prager_2...
- vector_spaces 3mo agoLove this, thank you for sharing it