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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.

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Givemeurhats t1_ix3j0ib wrote

This. Almost all we know about the Mayan language came from his book

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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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