[Aztlan] R's in mayan

[Nick Hopkins]

On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Elaine Day Schele wrote:
>
>  A syllable is often made up of a consonant plus a vowel or a  
> single vowel"

Actually--a fact recognized by at least some epigraphers--those  
syllable signs that are said to represent "vowels" begin with a  
consonant, the glottal stop, which is why they are used to write  
final glottal stops, e.g., glyphic mo-'o for the word mo' "macaw."

Nick Hopkins