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Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic ScriptGabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
[Written Language & Literacy 3:1] 2000
► pp. 77–115
Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
[Written Language & Literacy 3:1] 2000
► pp. 77–115
Bilingualism in the Maya Codices and the Books of Chilam Balam
The bilingualism recently discovered in the Maya codices by Robert Wald and Alfonso Lacadena has parallels in the Colonial Maya Books of Chilam Balam, which show both linguistic and scriptural bilingualism — involving, on the one hand, the Maya and Spanish languages, and on the other, the logosyllabic and alphabetic scripts of these two cultures. The article explores the continuities and discontinuities in these language contact phenomena with respect to vocabulary, morphology, syntax, spelling conventions, style, and text format.
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