Some Observations on T585 (Quincunx) of the Maya Script  

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Stross, Brian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 28 no. 3 (1986), page 283-312.
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The Maya glyph IK (ik') is found in structurally similar positions to the Maya quincunx glyph, which is known to have a phonetic value bi or be. Since ik' is life, spirit, breath, wind in Mayan languages, it is noteworthy that bi/be means life, breath, spirit in Zapotecan languages, possible descendents of the language of Monte Alban in the Valley of Oaxaca, where the quincunx glyph is found quite early. Thus, it is conceivable that the Maya quincunx glyph with its sound value be was borrowed in both form and sound value from Zapotecans, suggesting that be is also the sound value of that glyph in the 'Zapotec' script. It is further suggested that in Zapotec the quincunx was a logogram representing be life, breath, wind whose meaning carried over into at least the quincunx part of a "death" expression in the Maya inscriptions, and perhaps else- where in the Maya script. Additional connections of the quincunx and IK glyphs are pursued.

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