The Jaguar and the Jaguarundi (Tzotzil written in Maya)

Sep 23, 2024 10:58 PM

ChronicEd

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The Jaguar and the Jaguarundi (Tzotzil written in Maya)

My first post about this (with a tiny bit of information with what I'm attempting)
https://imgur.com/gallery/gLlhXW2

And here is a post I made on Lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/post/18726553

Added the syllabary (alphabet) that I came up with.
https://imgur.com/a/UYyStgV

The book where I read the story.
https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1362

The first 8 characters are the title of the story.
A li mol bolom e (a li-mo-lo [bo-lo]-m(a) e)
A li tzajal bolom e (a li-tza-ha [bo-lo]-m(a) e)

I believe I have completed a basis to work from. There's still a few hiccups here and there (Such as the characters are still way too large). And issues with words such as "Istenbe la" (Row 4, column 3). And I'm not really sure what the best method of dealing with foreign sounds would be (such as "pero" Row 10, column 4, which I wrote two R's inside the character "lo", and "buelta" R3C7 as written as bu-we-le-ta).

However, I really do like how I ended sentences/thoughts. By either writing nothing (if the sentence ends a line) or using "nu" as just an X inside a main sign (C10R2) which could be, in theory, replaced by un and une. As well as using "e" either alone, or expanding as a final fix across the entire word. (C2R2 and C12R6). (e, un, and une often end sentences or indirect/direct subjects/objects).

Anyway, there is a whole lot to explain, and I am kind of burnt out at the moment, but I like it enough to show it off (as well as an aid for my addled mind to maintain focus on it for a later time). My next task is to write out the rules for formal writing.

tzotzil

maya

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Very nice. Back when I was in college, I was majoring in anthropology, with an anticipation of focussing on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, but life happens, and here I am doing websites instead. Still nice to live that life left behind by living it vicariously through others.

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Unfortunately I grew up to be a failure, but meh, I've helped a lot of people in many areas (as I did learn a lot quite well on my own). So it wasn't all for naught.

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You've done way more along those lines than I ever did, and by several orders of magnitude. Don't sell yourself short.

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It took me a while, but I realize I'm not a failure for the what, why, and how, but a failure for the who and when. Knowing things isn't a desirable quality for the people I live among, and for everything that I've succeeded at was almost always at the worst possible times. However, I have passed on a lot of knowledge (Skills? Methods?) with a great number of people on the internet, and that, I would have to say, is my greatest achievement.

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