Neue Ergebnisse in der Erforschung der Graphemik und Graphetik des Klassischen Maya

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The hitherto only partially deciphered Maya hieroglyphic writing system is one of the most eminent examples of the development of writing in the world. The present article discusses a new description scheme for graphemes in Maya writing. Previous sign catalogues applied a more or less random approach to make an inventory of allographs. Our scheme works on the basis of sign-morphological criteria and revises the coding scheme established by Eric Thompson. This new grapheme classification is moreover designed to match the requirements of corpus linguistics and machine readability.

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Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten III, Gülden, Svenja A., Moezel, Kyra van der, Verhoeven, Ursula, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2018