Affiliation:
1. Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract
Mesoamerican writing systems exhibit a great many salient differences and yet a closer scrutiny equally reveals a number of structural continuities between essential deep-seeded features. Several signs in the various signatories exhibit formal graphic similarities and show great continuity in use and function, which attests to extensive and prolonged contact between the users of the distinct writing systems of Mesoamerica. With this paper, I aim to contribute to our understanding of the presence of xenographs in Maya writing by exploring key examples of shared signs for their typographic, typological or semantical function, using the framework of lexical borrowing as analytical analogy.
Publisher
Wydawnictwo i Pracownia Archeologiczna PROFIL-ARCHEO
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