Attempt to interpret Maya script as an alphabetic script
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Not to be confused with Laṇḍā scripts.
Reproduction of the page from Diego de Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, which gives a purported correspondence between letters of the Spanish alphabet and Maya glyphs, and which has become known as the de Landa alphabet
The de Landa alphabet is the correspondence of Spanish letters and glyphs written in the pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, recorded as part of his documentation of the Maya civilization. Despite its inaccuracies, the information provided by him would much later prove to be crucial to the mid-20th century breakthrough in the decipherment of the Maya script, starting with the work of the Soviet epigrapher and Mayanist Yuri Knorozov.
The deLandaalphabet is the correspondence of Spanish letters and glyphs written in the pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán...
Diego deLanda Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led...
wrote his dissertation on the "deLandaalphabet", a record produced by the 16th century Spanish Bishop Diego deLanda in which he claimed to have transliterated...
In the 1950s Yuri Knorozov used a phonetic approach based on the DeLandaalphabet for decoding the codex, which was followed up in the 1980s by other...
Burmese script) The manuscript titled Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (1566; Spain) shows the deLandaalphabet (and a bilingual list of words and phrases)...
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