The Numerical Head Variants and The Mayan Numbers.  

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Macri, Martha

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 27 no. 1 (1985), page 46-85.
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Within the Classic Maya system of hieroglyphic writing there existed a tradition of recording the numbers from 1 to 19 by using certain human and humanoid faces. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that these head variants were rebuses for the sounds of the numbers in Mayan languages. The words for each number in representative Mayan languages is com- pared with possible phonetic elements found in the corresponding head variant, in many cases with good success. Additional hypotheses briefly discussed include: the significance of 13 as a lunar count, the fact that nearly half the heads may be female, and the possibility that the numerical head variants originated among speakers of an Eastern Mayan language.

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