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thatcantb t1_ix3ifeo wrote
Reply to comment by FoolishConsistency17 in Yuri Knorozov: The Maverick Scholar Who Cracked The Maya Code by tyrannosauru
And ignores the Spanish priest who wrote down the syllables in the first place.
Givemeurhats t1_ix3j0ib wrote
This. Almost all we know about the Mayan language came from his book
FoolishConsistency17 t1_ix3k456 wrote
Various Mayan languages are spoken by millions of people today.
As far as reading Mayan, it started the process of figuring it out. It was a first step, not the whole.
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