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Mayan script is about 60% understood, with a substantial portion deciphered without knowing the vocalizations. Most writing was lost as it was painted and didn't survive the ages.Apparently Mayan symbols functioned similar to Japanese kanji in that they could hold complex meaning in usage by interplay between logographic and phonemic reading.
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@Moon most writing was lost as it was actively purged, books destroyed by spainmans
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@Moon stuff was lost because their culture was made illegallocation is not good for codex preservation, sure, but we still got 4(?) even with systematic purge and that's-a-fake-language-now-badsilence the parents so children become christian technique, same as used with indians/first-nations in us/canada, sami in sweden, ainu in japan, modern minority-lang people in spanish-speaking sudamerica, now uyghur in china etc
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@shmibs sure, we but don't know how much was lost though simply to the combination of decline of mayan civilization and the stuff being written on bark
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@shmibs I'm not denying the systematic purge of mayan codicesuyghur stuff is complicated, they're oppressors as well as oppressed, I guess that was true for the mexica as well though.
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@Moon everyone hurting someone, yeh. inca history erased when they were a squabbling empire that murdered lots of people sometimes.often not the same subset of those people, though; try to see people as individuals, at least, and no "x good because y bad"
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@rizzo @shmibs they dipped their feet in rubber sap to make makeshift boots for jungle forays also
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@shmibs @Moon lol I remember learning that they had invented rubber balls there. Because like really liked sports. And spaniards were so confounded on the rubber balls that bounced that they actively destroyed most rubber balls and described them as satanic.
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