Acknowledgements

In the elaboration of this website and the conversion of reading materials to Adobe Acrobat PDF (portable document format) files, I must acknowledge the generous assistance and expertise of Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Erik Boot, Brian Jacobsen, Harri Kettunen and Una Canger.

Syllabus

2007 - Syllabus for Course no.: B: 4730024 - PDF (0.6 Mb)

Glossary

HELMKE, Christophe, Una Canger & Julie Knub
2006 “Glossary of Linguistic & Epigraphic Terminology / Ordliste over Lingvistisk & Epigrafisk Terminologi.” Department of Native American Languages & Cultures, University of Copenhagen. [PDF] (0.2 Mb)

Syllabaries

2005 - Harri Kettunen & Christophe Helmke (10th EMC Handbook: 49-52) (0.4 Mb)
2005 - David Stuart (29th Maya Hieroglyph Forum Sourcebook: 27-32) (0.8 Mb)
2001 - Michael Coe & Mark Van Stone (Reading Maya Glyphs: 158-160) (1.0 Mb)
2001 - Laurie Coulter (Secrets in Stone: 44-45) (0.4 Mb)
2000 - Nikolai Grube (Maya Divine Kings of the Rain Forest: 124) (0.5 Mb)
1992 - Michael Coe (Breaking the Maya Code: 280-281) (0.7 Mb)
1989 - David Stuart (Maya Glyphs: 41) (0.3 Mb)
1987 - David Stuart (RRAMW, No. 14: 46-47) (0.5 Mb)

Reading List

BOOT, Erik
2003 “Suffix Formation on Verb Stems and Epigraphic Maya Spelling Conventions: The Employment and Function of Final Ca Syllabic Signs.” Unpublished typescript. [PDF] (0.8 Mb)

CHASE, Arlen F., Nikolai Grube & Diane Z. Chase
1991 “Three Terminal Classic Monuments from Caracol, Belize.” Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 36. Center for Maya Research: Washington, DC. [PDF] (1.6 Mb)

COE, Michael D.
1992 Breaking the Maya Code. Thames & Hudson: London & New York. [Indiansk CB6 COE]

COE, Michael D. & Justin Kerr
1997 The Art of the Maya Scribe. Thames & Hudson: London & New York. [Indiansk CB6 COE]

COE, Michael D. & Mark Van Stone
2001 Reading the Maya Glyphs. Thames & Hudson: London & New York. [Indiansk CB6 REA]

GRUBE, Nikolai
2002 “Onomástica de los gobernantes mayas.” La organización social entre los mayas: Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Vol. II, edited by Vera Tiesler Blos, Rafael Cobos & Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 321-353. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia & Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán: México, DF & Mérida. [PDF] (8.2 Mb)
2000 “The City-States of the Maya.” A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures, edited by Mogens Herman Hansen, pp. 547-565. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter 21, København. [PDF] (3.0 Mb)
1992 “Classic Maya dance: evidence from hieroglyphs and iconography.” Ancient Mesoamerica, Vol. 3 (2): 201-218. [PDF] (6.0 Mb)

GRUBE, Nikolai & Werner Nahm
1994 “A census of Xibalba: a complete inventory of way characters on Maya ceramics.” The Maya Vase Book: Volume 4, edited by Justin Kerr, pp. 686-715. Kerr Associates, New York. [PDF] (16.4 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 KER]

HOUSTON, Stephen, John Robertson & David Stuart
2000 “The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions.” Current Anthropology, Vol. 41 (3): 321-256. [PDF] (0.4 Mb)

HOUSTON, Stephen & David Stuart
1996 “Of Gods, Glyphs and Kings: Divinity and Rulership among the Classic Maya.” Antiquity, Vol. 70 (268): 289-312. [PDF] (3.0 Mb)
1989 “The Way Glyph: Evidence for Co-essences among the Classic Maya.” Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 30. Center for Maya Research, Washington, DC. [PDF] (4.0 Mb)

HOUSTON, Stephen, David Stuart & John Robertson
2004 “Disharmony in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Linguistic Change and Continuity in Classic Society.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 83-101. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (0.3 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]

HOUSTON, Stephen D., David Stuart & Karl Taube
1989 “Folk Classification of Classic Maya pottery.” American Anthropologist, Vol. 91 (3): 720-726. [PDF] (0.8 Mb)

JUSTESON, John S. & Lyle Campbell
1997 “The Linguistic Background of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Arguments against a “Highland Mayan” Role.” The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs, edited by Martha J. Macri & Anabel Ford, pp. 41-67. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute: San Francisco. [PDF] (3.0 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LAN]

KETTUNEN, Harri & Christophe Helmke
2005 Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs: Workshop Handbook. 10th European Maya Conference Leiden, December 5-10, 2005. Wayeb & Leiden University: Leiden. [PDF] (8.3 Mb)

LACADENA, Alfonso
2004 “Passive Voice in Classic Mayan Texts: CV-h-C-aj and -n-aj Constructions.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 165-194. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (0.8 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]
2001 “Gramática de la(s) lengua(s) clásica(s).” Reference Book for the 6th Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop, compiled by Christian Prager, pp. 52-61. Sixth European Maya Conference and Workshop Series, Wayeb & University of Hamburg, Hamburg. [PDF] (4.0 Mb)
2000 “Antipassive Constructions in the Maya Glyphic Texts.” Written Language and Literacy, Vol. 3 (1): 155-180. [PDF] (2.0 Mb)

LACADENA, Alfonso & Søren Wichmann
n.d. “Harmony Rules and the Suffix Domain: A Study of Maya Scribal Conventions.” Unpublished typescript. [PDF] (0.3 Mb)
2004 “On the Representation of the Glottal Stop in Maya Writing.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 103-162. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (0.3 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]
2002 “The Distribution of Lowland Maya Languages in the Classic Period.” La organización social entre los mayas: Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Vol. II, edited by Vera Tiesler, Rafael Cobos & Merle Greene Robertson, pp. 275-314. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia & Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán: México, DF & Mérida. [PDF] (12.4 Mb)

MACLEOD, Barbara
2004 “A World in a Grain of Sand: Transitive Perfect Verbs in the Classic Maya Script.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 291-325. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (2.7 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]

MACLEOD, Barbara & Dorie Reents-Budet
1994 “Art of Calligraphy: Image and Meaning.” Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period, edited by Dorie Reents-Budet, pp. 106-163. Duke University Press: Durham. [PDF] (18.7 Mb) [Indiansk CB9 REE]

MARTIN, Simon
2005 “Of Snakes and Bats: Shifting Identities at Calakmul.” The PARI Journal, Vol. 6 (2): 5-13. [PDF] (0.5 Mb)

MARTIN, Simon & Nikolai Grube
2000 Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya. Thames & Hudson: London. [Indiansk CB9 CHR]
1995 “Maya Superstates: How a few powerful kingdoms vied for control of the Maya Lowlands during the Classic period (A.D. 300-900).” Archaeology, Vol. 48 (6): 41-46.

MATHEWS, Peter
2004 “Maya Dates.” All in the Family: The Royal Genealogy of Palenque, edited by Peter Mathews, pp. 24-49. Xth Maya Hieroglyph Weekend, 2004. K’inal Winik Cultural Center, Cleveland State University, Cleveland. [PDF] (1.9 Mb)

MONTGOMERY, John
2002 How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs. Hippocrene Books: New York. [Indiansk CB6 MON]

STUART, David
2006a “Workings of the Script.” Sourcebook for the 30th Maya Meetings, March 14-19, 2006, edited by David Stuart, pp. 17-31. Mesoamerican Center, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin. [PDF] (1.6 Mb)
2006b “Mayan Languages and the Basics of Grammar.” Sourcebook for the 30th Maya Meetings, March 14-19, 2006, edited by David Stuart, pp. 32-68. Mesoamerican Center, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. [PDF] (6.4 Mb)
2005a “The Calendars.” Sourcebook for the 29th Maya Meetings, March 11-16, 2005, edited by David Stuart, pp. 91-109. Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin: Austin. [PDF] (3.0 Mb)
2005b “Chapter 6: A New Look at Palenque's Mythology.” The Inscriptions from Temple XIX at Palenque: A Commentary, pp. 158-185. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute of Archaeology, San Francisco. [PDF] (1.8 Mb)
1998 “‘The Fire Enters His House’: Architecture and Ritual in Classic Maya Texts.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, edited by Stephen D. Houston, pp. 373–426. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, DC. [PDF] (0.7 Mb)
1997 “Kinship Terms in Maya Inscriptions.” The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs, edited by Martha Macri & Anabel Ford, pp. 77-88. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute: San Francisco. [PDF] (1.4 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LAN]
1987 “Ten Phonetic Syllables.” Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 14. Center for Maya Research, Washington, DC. [PDF] (9.5 Mb)

STUART, David & Stephen Houston
1994 Classic Maya Place Names. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture No. 33. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC. [Indiansk CB6 STU]

STUART, David, Stephen Houston & John Robertson
1999 “Recovering the Past: Classic Maya Language and Classic Maya Gods.” Notebook for the XXIIIrd Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas, edited by Nikolai Grube, pp. II.1-II-80. Department. of Art and Art History, the College of Fine Arts, and the Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin. [Indiansk CB6 NOT]

STUART, David with Barbara MacLeod, Simon Martin & Yuriy Polyukhovich
2005 “Glyphs on Pots: Decoding Classic Maya Ceramics.” Sourcebook for the 29th Maya Hieroglyphic Forum, edited by David Stuart, pp. 110-159. Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin: Austin. [PDF] (6.4 Mb)

STUART, George E.
1992 “Quest for Decipherment: A Historical and Bibliographical Survey of Maya Hieroglyphic Investigation.” New Theories on the Ancient Maya, edited by Elin C. Danien & Robert J. Sharer, pp. 1-63. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. [PDF] (6.9 Mb) [Indiansk CB9 NEW]

TAUBE, Karl. A.
1992 The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 32. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC. [Indiansk CB9 TAU]

WALD, Robert F.
2004a “Telling Time in Classic-Ch’olan and Acalan-Chontal Narrative: The Linguistic Basis of Some Temporal Discourse Patterns in Maya Hieroglyphic and Acalan-Chontal Texts.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 211-258. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (0.9 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]
2004b “The Languages of the Dresden Codex: Legacy of the Classic Maya.” The Linguistics of Maya Writing, edited by Søren Wichmann, pp. 27-58. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. [PDF] (0.9 Mb) [Indiansk CB6 LIN]

ZENDER, Marc U.
2002a “The Toponyms of El Cayo, Piedras Negras, and La Mar.” Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and Legacy of Linda Schele, edited by Andrea Stone, pp. 166-184. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. [PDF] (3.6 Mb)
2002b “A Note on the Inscription of Ixtutz Stela 4.” The PARI Journal, Vol. 2/3 (4): 17-22. [PDF] (6.7 Mb)
1999 Diacritical marks and underspelling in the Classic Maya script: Implications for decipherment. Unpublished MA thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary. [PDF] (9.5 Mb)

Reference Materials

BOOT, Erik
2002 A Preliminary Classic Maya-English/English-Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings. Mesoweb. [PDF] (0.2 Mb)

CAMPBELL, Lyle
1984 “The Implications of Mayan Historical Linguistics for Glyphic Research.” Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, edited by John S. Justeson & Lyle Campbell, pp. 1-16. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Publication No. 9. State University of New York, Albany. [PDF] (1.0 Mb)

COE, Michael D. & Mark Van Stone
2001 “A Maya Lexicon.” Reading the Maya Glyphs, edited by Michael D. Coe & Mark Van Stone, pp. 162-166. Thames & Hudson, London. [PDF] (3.0 Mb)

DIENHART, John
1989 The Mayan Languages - A Comparative Vocabulary. Syddansk Universitet. [URL]

GRUBE, Nikolai
2004 “A Dictionary of Classic Mayan.” Notebook for the XXVIIIth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas, edited by Nikolai Grube, pp. 83-87. University of Texas at Austin, Austin. [PDF] (2.5 Mb)

KAUFMAN, Terrence (with John Justeson)
2003 A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary. FAMSI. [PDF] (1.8 Mb)

KAUFMAN, Terrence S. & William M. Norman
1984 “Reconstructed Cholan Vocabulary.” Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, edited by John S. Justeson & Lyle Campbell, pp. 109-139. Institute for Mesomamerican Studies, Publication No.9. State University of New York, Albany. [PDF] (6.0 Mb)

KETTUNEN, Harri & Christophe Helmke
2005 Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs: Workshop Handbook. 10th European Maya Conference Leiden, December 5-10, 2005. Wayeb & Leiden University: Leiden. [PDF] (8.3 Mb)

LACADENA, Alfonso
2001 “Vocabulario Maya Jeroglífico.” Reference Book for the 6th Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop, compiled by Christian Prager, pp. 222-237. Sixth European Maya Conference and Workshop Series, Wayeb & University of Hamburg, Hamburg. [PDF] (13.4 Mb)

MATHEWS, Peter & Péter Bíró
2006 Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary. FAMSI. [PDF] (1.1 Mb)

MONTGOMERY, John (with Peter Mathews)
2002 Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs. FAMSI. [URL]

STUART, David
2005 “Concise Dictionary of Classic Mayan.” Sourcebook for the 29th Maya Hieroglyphic Forum, edited by David Stuart, pp. 79-90. Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. [PDF] (1.1 Mb)

Dictionaries

The following list of online dictionaries is courtesy of Erik Boot
with orthographic amendments by Christophe Helmke.


Achi' (Achi) - ALMG
Akatek (Acateco, Akateko)
Awatek (Aguacateco, Awakateko, Awateko) - ALMG
Chikomuseltek† (Chicomucelteco, Chicomuselteco, Chikomuselteko)
Chontal
Chuj - ALMG
Ch'ol (Chol) - Tumbala
Ch’olti’† (Cholti, Ch'olti7) - Moran 1695(1)
Ch’olti’† (Cholti, Ch'olti7) - Moran 1695(2)
Ch'orti' (Chorti, Ch'orti7) - ALMG
Ch'orti' (Chorti, Ch'orti7) - Boot based on Perez 1994
Ch'orti' (Chorti, Ch'orti7) - Hull
Ch'orti' (Chorti, Ch'orti7) - Wisdom 1950
Itzaj (Itza, Itza', Itza7) - ALMG
Itzaj (Itza, Itza', Itza7) - Boot based on Hofling 1991
Ixil
Jakaltek (Jacalteco)
Kaqchikel (Cakchikel, Kaqchikeel)
K'iche' (Quiche, Quiché, Quiche’, K’ichee’, K’iichee’, K’iichee7) - ALMG
Lakantun (Lacandon, Lakandon) - Boot based on Bruce 1968
Mam (Qyool) - ALMG
Mocho' (Motozintleco, Mochó, Moocho7)
Mopan (Mopán, Mopane, Muuch’t’an) - ALMG
Pokom - Feldman 1998
Poqomam (Pokomam, Poqomaam) - ALMG
Poqomchi' (Pocomchi, Pokomchi, Poqomchii7) - ALMG
Popti' (Popti7) - ALMG
Q'anjob'al (Kanjobal, Kanjob’al) - ALMG
Q'eqchi' (Kekchi, K’ek’chi, Q’eqchi7) - ALMG
Sakapultek (Sacapultec, Sacapulteco, Sakapulteko) - ALMG
Sipakapa (Sipacapa, Sipacapense, Sipakapense, Sipacapeño) - ALMG
Tektitek (Teco, Teko, Tectiteco, Tektiteko) - ALMG
Tojolab'al (Comiteco, Tojolabal)
Tusantek (Tuzanteco, Tuzanteko, Muuchu7)
Tzeltal (B'atz'il K'op) - Ara n.d.
Tzeltal (B'atz'il K'op) - Maffi 1995
Tzotzil - Boot based on Haviland 1981
Tz'utujil (Tzutuhil, Tzutujil, Tz’utujiil)
Uspantek (Uspanteco, Uspanteko)
Yukatek (Yucateco, Yukateko, Maya, Mayathan, Maya’t’aan) - AULEX
Yukatek (Yucateco, Yukateko, Maya, Mayathan, Maya’t’aan) - Bolles 1997
Yukatek (Yucateco, Yukateko, Maya, Mayathan, Maya’t’aan) - Gómez 2005
Yukatek (Yucateco, Yukateko, Maya, Mayathan, Maya’t’aan) - UADY
Wastek (Huasteco, Wasteko, Teenek)