[Aztlan] R's in mayan

[David Hixson]

You may have already found this web resource, but here
is a site that tells you how to write your name in
Maya glyphs (including how you may need to substitute
certain sounds that are not present in ancient Maya):

http://home.planet.nl/~roeli049/enghome1.htm

It's actually a very good excercise to teach you about
reading hieroglyphs in general.

-Dave

--- David and Fiona Gray <davefiona at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>          I am in the process of reading John
> Montgomery's book"How to read Maya Hieroglyphs". He
> writes for the most part R in Mayan is exceptionally
> rare (page 11). He doesn't give an example of how
> the Maya would write an R though.  I would like to 
> know what it looks like as i am planning this year 
> to give  homemade Name glyphs as Christmas  presents
> and it would make it much easier if  I could use an
> R.


       
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