Talk:Classic Maya language
From Academic Kids
Interesting article, thanks for contributing it, anon! I encourage you to stick around, choose a user name, and log in here.
A couple of details I was wondering about: I had heard from linguists that Classic Maya of the central lowlands was most closely ancestral to Chol, already distinct from the Yucatec of the earlier inscriptions. Here the ancestors of Chol and Yucatec Maya are talked about as dialects of the same language, but their offshoots as seperate languages. Is there any consensus as to when/if they became seperate languges or how this should be classified?
I'm also not sure that the link to "Egyptian language" is the best way to describe Maya writing. In any case, Wikipedia could use more and better info on Pre-Columbain Maya writing (and something on the colonial era literary tradition as well, but I think that's further down the road). Cheers, -- Infrogmation 23:37, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
