Mayan Hieroglyphics 101

Presented in December 2020, Alejandro Garay Herrera of the University of Bonne discusses Maya Hieroglyphics. This writing system was used by the Maya for almost two millennia in pre-Hispanic times throughout the Mayan region. Professor Garay explains some basic principles of how this writing system works as well as some notions about the Mayan calendrical systems, some of which are still in use in Guatemala today.

[@bomyers5345]

This an amazing presentation! I'm a senior in high school and have a immense ambition to better understand and study the mayan language and this has helped tremendously!!!

[@LuisRamirez-vv4dk]

Mayan language is Yucatec language. There are other mayan languages but Yucetec is the actual Maya language.

[@bomyers5345]

@@LuisRamirez-vv4dk I understand I just use that since there several dozen varieties of languages that have evolved from that region sometimes I just use maya and other times I use kiche or like said yucetec name the language

[@anthonyvasquez486]

That's a cool session, I found out I have some Mayan blood, nice to learn what we can about ourselves, To bad about the lost history, ''Dang Catholics'', I'm sure there more still buried, now that we have drill technology for water, I wonder why they haven't moved back in to the 'ol' campgrounds, shoot, I would,! HAA! Thanks for taking the time to make a vid, like you said about hard drives,'' got to keep the record, safe and unforgotten, i always wished i could visit, thank god for KZbin, have a good one,- peace

[@gregb3443]

Greetings, do you have any info on the 52 years calendar glyphs? I am particularly interested in trying to understand the meaning of the symbols on each of the 52 years calendar cycle.

[@kamion53]

@54:53 finally I found the first syllabe of my own name (pe) T759b it was missing from the chart a long time. @ 1:00:55 I did not know that this figure which was called the Jester God was a word for book/ paper. As far as I can remember H'un is also a word for headband a sigh of royalty like the diademos for the Hellinistic kings. There iis also another glyph for book, nl T609b ( in Thompson's catalogue) @1:09:16 What does the sign ak'bal represent, is it part of an animal? I know it is usually translated as "darkness" but when I know what it represent I could make a full figured glyph of it

[@TravisLee33]

Very nice to see!

[@feleslucis-emanueldearaujo6237]

From what I've read, the main problem with making Mayan Hieroglyphics compatible with the Unicode Standard is due to them having different layers that are worked on, and the way vocalic and semantic affixes are added to different signs makes it too hard to make it actually work. And, yes, the Mayan glyphs are really complex, and this is just touching the syllabic glyphs, the ideographic glyphs are another issue, and, unfortunately, the systems we use for other ideographic writing systems such as Chinese and Hittite, it's not as simple as assigning a simple sign to a combination of Latin letters, unfortunately.

[@jbird9220]

Can you cover the cultural connections between Maya and Africa?

[@LuisRamirez-vv4dk]

There are none. LoL

[@jbird9220]

@@LuisRamirez-vv4dk I know them. I was asking so that he can educate people like yourself.

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@jbird9220 you don't know anything about Native ppl if you think there is an African connection. There isn't any, other than the Culture vulture BS from the USA Black culture vultures. Get over it!

[@teresafernandez9849]

There are none! I am from 2 Mexican tribes, there are none, and any made up cullture vultures BS from USA, is treated like the BS that it is!!

[@joelolwertz5894]

Africans built hut, Mayans pyramids. There you go!

[@ministerofpropaganda4050]

Hello i live in nevada and found what i believe to be a mayan artifact with writing on it. Its very worn down but i think its a calendar.

[@ministerofpropaganda4050]

Its written on what i believe to be a fossil shell.

[@buaa77]

hello, good time impresssive document I am antoni from Belgium watching lesson in two days 'every discovery impressive nowadays i heard in yt ritme procast video about um Pixao proclaimed in' 00's Runs inspired waow! notes 7x so on kreeeezi lesson thx

[@alfredosantanaalvarez4380]

El matrimonio. Ejemplo Tlaxcala Cacaxtla . Locales se sentían glorificados por formar un matrimonio con mayas; potencializó el poder local. Y sucede lo mismo en el avance en el golfo, no sólo hombres también mujeres. El palacio de Cacaxtla es una imitación maya de estilo puuc.

[@xsiri3022]

45:00 Logogram

[@jbird9220]

Was there a mongol invasion, and does that reflect who are in the region today?

[@LuisRamirez-vv4dk]

Get out of here wabo.

[@jbird9220]

@@LuisRamirez-vv4dk just covering all the mixtures that make for modern day natives.

[@LuisRamirez-vv4dk]

@J Bird LOL you're delusional.

[@Atlanti97]

@@jbird9220 MONGOLS WEREN'T A THING 20,000 YEARS THEY ARE PROTO SIBERIAN

[@ludiherik]

você tem um sotaque brasileiro quando fala inglês

[@jbird9220]

Mayan translated and interpreted through Latin or English is not Mayan language. English, while accredited to Germans, is not the same as a Germanic language. Maybe a some words are the same, but what we call English is really a American general trade language.

[@kevinandrade4302]

Muy buenas imagenes, quisiera un contacto para hablar acerca del poder espiritual que los mayas poseían, el día de hoy está muerto. El mundo moderno ha matado(mediante la educación) toda concepción espiritual antigua porque simplemente no quieren que investiguemos y nos preguntemos. La infrastructura y razón de las ciudades enterradas en Petén sería un tema muy interesante a tocar, el Mirador y Tikal

[@heidyalvarado6017]

The Itza and the Mopan are in the Peten. The highland Maya are Maya but they are not the same ones that built the giant temples or had writing. Please be honest Alejandro. The highland Maya did not have writing. The very few examples are probably from Cholan Maya sources. You know the codices from the highlands did not have Mayan inscriptions. You said so yourself in one document. PLease be honest Alejandro.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Runes are better adapted to Germanic languages even..

[@sergiorojas7863]

Love Guatemala

[@heidyalvarado6017]

The Mayans of Guatemala are not the same Maya that built the ancient cities like Tikal. Only the lowland Maya are direct descendants of the classic Mayans. Only the lowland Mayans had writing, not the highland Mayans.

[@WallaceSpirit]

Please tell me how you know that? I have been researching the mayan civilization for 3 months non stop now and visiting multiple temples (I am in guatemala) and Highlands and lowlands ruinas/temples have their writing system... so im curious why you say that sister Heidy

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@@WallaceSpirit Kiches and kaqchikeles are in fact a seperate group from the lowland Maya. They didnt speak the same language or use Mayan script. The only sites in the highlands with writing are preclassic sites. They were cholan mayan sites. Kiches, and other highland groups didnt use the mayan script.

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@@WallaceSpirit No posclasic sites in the highlands have writing. The stelas in Iximche are recent fakes. The kaqchikeles never had mayan writing, that is just a fact.

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@Nolan Nez No it's not.Instead of makeing false accusation tell me where I am wrong?

[@cerbzzz7147]

The popol vuh was literally originally in maya script before being translated to Spanish what are you talking about

[@martyjansing2675]

David Stuart...?

[@martyjansing2675]

Linda Schele... ???

[@martyjansing2675]

La Danta,, El Mirador pre - classic?

[@AntzLoks1314]

el-Choctaw-lord-de-CalifasMexicoAztlan ANTZ Holywater i Cali 🐜🐜

[@jbird9220]

Voodoo is the offspring of the snake god.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

The language of Beowulf is closer to Dutch than to English.

[@lauramorgan2928]

Why did the Mayans depict themselves as brown,to chocolate black?

[@johnnymccoy4311]

Thats what they were

[@KaliThaGod]

@@johnnymccoy4311 🎯 Right‼️ They wanna ignore that FACT but #WeStillHere

[@lauramorgan2928]

@@johnnymccoy4311 I know that,I was wondering why people actually don’t speak truth,when they literally depicted themselves as as such,just like the Egyptians

[@jr.solaris253]

@@lauramorgan2928 So, what are you trying to prove?

[@jr.solaris253]

@@KaliThaGod 😂🤣

[@williamsmarquez6624]

Hey do u know about Santa Monica they found Atlantis ??? ??? My dad was the lighting god!!!! And I was Phoenix az .. the sun devils !!!!!!!! And the sun god from the Inca is South American!!!!!!!!

[@jbird9220]

Clicking languages come from what is called African languages

[@teresafernandez9849]

You wish! These fools take a picture of dark skin ppl on old cave art, and start to culture vulture everyone and their grandmother. The Aboriginals of Australia r NOT from Africa, niether r the Negritos from the Philippines, or the ppl from Papua New Guinea. These fools r to far gone. They are so obsessed with skin color and being anything else but who they are, they don't have the capacity to grasp the concept of skin color and the science of skin color. They are really ignorant pathetic!!

[@Jan_von_Gratschoff]

HieroglyphS, not HieroglyphICS. Hieroglyphics isn't even a thing. Except a Rap group or something.

[@citrusblast4372]

Hieroglyphics IS a word google it

[@allighast9714]

Hieroglyphics are the letters that the language of hieroglyphs is constructed from

[@dickrichard626]

@@citrusblast4372 All words are in the dictionary on the internet, even fake and stupid ones. 😆

[@Bowigg3]

They are not the same people keep it real

[@jr.solaris253]

What do you mean Don?

[@rustydogrustydog9191]

Sounds like a Afrocentric extremists emerging here.

[@jbird9220]

@@jr.solaris253 the people who have a strong desire to learn the Maya culture are not the Mayans. Spaniards want to learn Maya culture through Latin transcript.

[@jr.solaris253]

@J Bird Spaniards, and other people in general want to learn about the Mayans. There's codexes and some people can travel to those areas and learn more about them. Then you have the lucky ones who were born in the Mayan community who know where to look for clues.

[@jbird9220]

So who were the people that Classic Mayans were capturing?

[@EverybodylovesMoo]

Ima say those ancient Mayan hieroglyphics in those paintings on the wall they looking real dark and they looking real African like dreadlocks them skin tones look nothing of the people of today..... Today you see fair skin wasn't long beautiful hair stringy and braided Instead of them looking like they migrated from Asia they look like they migrated from Africa I know all the hate comments are going to come I'm just saying with the looks like

[@citrusblast4372]

Do u think mayan languages today sound ugly

[@jr.solaris253]

😂

[@jeffboomhauer2724]

Any genetic, historical, anthropological, architectural, archeological, or linguistic evidence to support your claims???

[@EverybodylovesMoo]

@@jeffboomhauer2724 sure ! It's called do your own research

[@jr.solaris253]

@@EverybodylovesMoo In other words, you gave no legit evidence. Afrocentric theories don't count as evidence, I'm just saying.