Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.

This website is an HTML version of CMGG, Sim Lee's Classic Maya Glyph Guide (Amsterdam: self-published, 2023-2025), with an accompanying Concordance that gives a visual cross-reference to Thompson, Bonn, and MHD glyph information, including all of their glyphs.

The Maya Writing System. The Maya hieroglyphic script was the only fully-fledged writing system in the Americas. There are over a thousand Maya glyphs known from carved stones, painted murals and ceramics. Most of them are logograms; the rest are phonetic signs. This article will show you how to read Maya hieroglyphs.

In about 1566, the first bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, compiled a key to the Mayan syllabary consisting of 27 Spanish letters and the Mayan glyphs with similar sounds. This became known as the Landa Alphabet and helped with the decipherment of the script, even though it was based on the false premise that the script was alphabetic.

2014年2月12日 · The Maya hieroglyphic writing system was a sophisticated combination of pictographs directly representing objects and ideograms (glyphs) expressing more abstract concepts such as actions, ideas and...

瑪雅文字 是 中部美洲 前哥倫布時期 馬雅文明 的 文字系統，也是目前唯一被基本破译的 中部美洲文字 （英语：Mesoamerican writing systems）。 最早的瑪雅文字記載可追溯至前3世紀 瓜地马拉 的 圣巴特羅 （英语：San Bartolo (Maya site)） 遗迹 [1][2]，而之後玛雅文字持續的被使用，直到 西班牙 的 征服者 在十六七世紀入侵馬雅後不久為止（之後部份較偏遠地區仍然持續使用了瑪雅文字一段時間，例如 塔亞薩爾 （西班牙语：Tayasal））。 瑪雅文字是由 音節文字 字形 組合成 …

Mayan hieroglyphic writing, system of writing used by the Maya people of Mesoamerica until about the end of the 17th century, 200 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. (With the 21st-century discovery of the Mayan site of San Bartolo in Guatemala came evidence of …

Facts and myths about the Maya writing system. How to read and write using Maya hieroglyphs, as well as activities for children and resources to download. KS2 Maya teaching resource.

The Mayan alphabet is the only kind of Mesoamerican script that has been successfully deciphered. Attempts to understand the Mayan alphabet can be dated as far back as the 16th century when a Spanish bishop accompanying the conquistadors penned down a key for the Mayan syllables.

ancient Maya writing did not use letters to spell words. Instead, they used a combination of glyphs that stood either for syllables, or for whole words. We will call the glyphs that stood for syllables ‘syllable glyphs,’ and we’ll call the glyphs that stood for whole words ‘logos.’ (The technically correct terms are ‘syllabogram’ and