[Aztlan] Re: Aztlan Digest, Vol 21, Issue 25

[Barb MacLeod]

Hi, David,

I haven't looked at the "How-To" site mentioned, but I have done some of 
this glyphic name representation myself and my own name, Barbara, has to be 
done as syllabic ba-ba-la.

There are highland Mayan languages that have /r/ where lowland Mayan has 
/y/, and a few lowland languages (Lacandon is one and Ch'orti' is another) 
have /r/ corresponding to /l/ elsewhere. So the use of syllabic la in my 
name makes sense.

Barb MacLeod

----- Original Message ----- 
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:59:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David and Fiona Gray <davefiona at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] R's in mayan
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> 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.
>
> Thanx in advance for any help for your words of advice
>