Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script
Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.
Gabrielle Vail
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gabrielle Vail plays a role.
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Subjects Languages of South America | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Writing and literacy
Articles
2003 Review of Coe & Van Stone (2001): Reading the Maya glyphs Written Language & Literacy 6:2, pp. 250–254 | Review
2000 Issues of Language and Ethnicity in the Postclassic Maya Codices Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 37–75 | Article
Researchers have long attributed the prehispanic Maya codices to a Yucatecan provenience, based on their style and on the occurrence of Yucatec words spelled phonetically in the glyphic texts. This interpretation has recently been challenged by two studies that demonstrate the presence of Ch’olan… read more
2000 Introduction to Special Issue: Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script, Vail, Gabrielle and Martha J. Macri, pp. 1–11 | Article