The Maya civilisation lasted from neighboring 500 BC to 1200 AD, with a classical catamenia from 300-900 AD. The earliest known composition in the Maya handwriting dates from circumference 250 BC, but the handwriting is thinking to stimulate issued at an earlier date. Recent archeological finds argument this the Maya civilisation instituted usually earlier: near 3,000 BC.

In circumference 1566, the root bishop of Yucatan, Diego de Landa, compiled a key to the Maya syllabary consisting of 27 Spanish hand and the Maya glyphs with carbon sounds. That became known as the Landa Abc and helped with the decryption of the script, even though it was based on the faux supposition this the hand was alphabetic.

For a pine period varied scholars believed this the hand did not playacting a nomenclature at all, or this it wasn't a stand-in composition system. The start majors discovery in decryption came round the 1950s then a Russian ethnologist, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov, proposed this the Maya handwriting was at least partly phonetic and represented the Yucateco Maya language. His targets were not welcomed by colorful Mayanists, but he was eventually proved correct.

More feeler in the decryption was counterfeit overall the 1970s and 1980s next again philology began to acquire an interestingness in the script. Today entire Maya texts can be read, though there are distillery some alien glyphs.

A gripping invoice of the decoding of the Maya hand can be make in Break the Mayan Code, by Micheal D. Coe.

The Yucateco Mayan lanky to use the Maya handwriting over at least the 16th century. Recently, their posterity make fathered to meditate the handwriting once anon from the scholars who get deciphered it.

Konojel ri winaqi' kan kalaxib'en pe ri kolotajk, ri junan kiq'ij, ri junan kejqalen, junan kich'ojib'al pa kik'aslen, xa achi'el k'a ri kik'ojlen, ri kinojib'al kichajin xa tik'amun k'a chi nimalj konojel xtikajo' ki'.

Patal an inik ani an uxum u wa'tsinal walkadh abal jununl kin bats'uw an alwa'talb ani ka pidhan in y jant'ini' in tomnl; in kwa'al in tsalpdh ani in k'ay' abal kin k'anidha' in juntal.

Kyaqiilqe winaq nchi itz'aj tuj kopib'il, juunx kychuwiinqal b'ix kyokleen, kyja'tzan tuj tb'aanal xiinv'il tu'n kyanq'iin tuj b'ank'u'j kyxool.

Spetsanal ja swinkil ja lu'um k'inali junxta wax jul schonjel, sok ja sijpanub'ali, ja yuj ojni b'ob' sk'u'luk ja jas sk'ana-i ja b'as lekilali, ja yuj ja ay sk'ujoli sok ay spensari t'ilan oj yilsb'aje lek sok ja smoj jumasa.