Essays of an AmericanistIEthnologic and archaeologicIIMythology and folk loreIIIGraphic systems and literatureIVLinguistic . Fig. 3.—Maya Phonetic Terminals. The signs for the four cardinal points appear to be ex-pressed phonetically. They are represented in Figs. 4 and5. The words are for North, xaman, East, lakin, South,nohil. West, chikin. Of these the syllable km appears inlakin and chiki?i, and is represented as above described. Theword for North has not been analyzed; that for South hasbeen translated by Prof. L,onde Rosny as 7na ya, the w^ordma meaning hands or arms, the lower as either
Essays of an AmericanistIEthnologic and archaeologicIIMythology and folk loreIIIGraphic systems and literatureIVLinguistic . Fig. 3.—Maya Phonetic Terminals. The signs for the four cardinal points appear to be ex-pressed phonetically. They are represented in Figs. 4 and5. The words are for North, xaman, East, lakin, South,nohil. West, chikin. Of these the syllable km appears inlakin and chiki?i, and is represented as above described. Theword for North has not been analyzed; that for South hasbeen translated by Prof. L,onde Rosny as 7na ya, the w^ordma meaning hands or arms, the lower as either a fruit or themasculine sign, in either case the phonetic value being aloneintended. Both the name and the etymology are, however,doubtful, resting upon late and imperfect authorities. 204 ESSAYS OF AN AMERICANIST. By pursuing the plan here indicated, that is, by assumingthat a figure whose representative value is known, has alsoa merely phonetic value in other combinations, a certainnumber of phonetic elements of the Maya tongue have beenidentified. Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in an article published in.
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