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Thread poster: Oriol Vives (X)
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Jan 20, 2022

Hello everyone,

I am looking for resources to learn the Mayan language. I don't know much about it but I do know there were thousands of libraries with books, codices, texts and such full of knowledge. We don't want to lose that! Imagine how many advances and technologies we could achieve, or how many illnesses we could cure now with that unique human culture perspective -perhaps even the dreadful COVID could have been cured by now if we researched thoroughly such Mayan language tex... See more
Hello everyone,

I am looking for resources to learn the Mayan language. I don't know much about it but I do know there were thousands of libraries with books, codices, texts and such full of knowledge. We don't want to lose that! Imagine how many advances and technologies we could achieve, or how many illnesses we could cure now with that unique human culture perspective -perhaps even the dreadful COVID could have been cured by now if we researched thoroughly such Mayan language texts!

So, can you please share where can I find resources to a) learn that beautiful language and b) check all the knowledge that is waiting in those texts?

Thank you! ▲ Collapse
 
Tom in London
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Italian to English
21 Jan 20, 2022

Oriol Vives wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am looking for resources to learn the Mayan language. I don't know much about it but I do know there were thousands of libraries with books, codices, texts and such full of knowledge. We don't want to lose that! Imagine how many advances and technologies we could achieve, or how many illnesses we could cure now with that unique human culture perspective -perhaps even the dreadful COVID could have been cured by now if we researched thoroughly such Mayan language texts!

So, can you please share where can I find resources to a) learn that beautiful language and b) check all the knowledge that is waiting in those texts?

Thank you!


There are 21 Mayan languages. Which one do you want to learn?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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@Oriol Jan 20, 2022

Oriol Vives wrote:
I am looking for resources to learn the Mayan language.

There are about 30 Mayan languages, but I suspect what you're looking for is learning some of the ancient branches of Mayan. This is likely to be taught only at university. Try contacting the authors of the various grammars listed on page 9 of this file:
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/c/1125/files/2015/09/Bennett_etal2015_Mayan_ling_intro-1ymmbkj.pdf
 


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