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Dictionaries


Lawrence Feldman
English/Cho'ltí'/Spanish Dictionary (2007)
The English/Cho'ltí'/Spanish Dictionary is a compilation derived, in large part, from the Arte y diccionario en lengua Choltí (1695). Though it is not a final version, it serves as a useful tool for those interested in working with the colonial past of the southern Maya lowlands.

Peter Mathews and Péter Bíró
The Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary (2006)
The Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary provides translations and analyses of about 1,000 Maya hieroglyphic words and compounds. Search for either the Maya word or by their English or Spanish translation.

Updated!
John Montgomery with Christophe Helmke
Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs (2007)
See the progression of John Montgomery's dictionary (2002) of Maya glyphs with phonetic transcriptions, "T" numbers, definitions and sound recordings. Updates made by Peter Mathews in 2003 with additional updates by Christophe Helmke in 2007.


David Bolles
Combined Dictionary–Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language (1997)
Updates are currently in process and sections will be posted as completed.

Post Conquest Mayan Literature (2010)   PDF format 10.7 MB.

Erik Boot
Diccionario and Arte of the Othomi (Otomí) Language: (2005)
L. D. Luis de Neve y Molina, 1767

Five Maya Vocabularies (2004)

Allen Christenson
K'iche' - English Dictionary (2003)

Lawrence H. Feldman
Pokom Maya and Their Colonial Dictionaries (1998)

Charles Andrew Hofling
Itzaj Maya Documentation (1998)

Nicholas A. Hopkins
A Dictionary of the Chuj (Mayan) Language (2012)

Nicholas A. Hopkins and J. Kathryn Josserand
A Historical Dictionary of Chol (Mayan) (2011)

Kerry Hull
A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala (2005)

J. Kathryn Josserand
Chol Ritual Language (1995)

Terrence Kaufman with John Justeson
A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary (2002)

Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo
The Glyphic Corpus from Ek' Balam, Yucatán, México (2004)

Christian Lehmann
A Grammar of Modern Yucatec Maya by Manuel Andrade (2008)

Luisa Maffi
A Tzeltal Maya Dictionary (1995)

 

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