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Terrence Kaufman

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investigation of Mesoamerican languages

  • In Mesoamerican Indian languages: Mesoamerican writing systems

    …reported by John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman in Science in 1993. The keys to its decipherment were the hypothesis that the text represents a Mixe-Zoquean language; the discovery of La Mojarra stela (1986)—a stela with 465 glyphs in a writing unlike the Mayan, Zapotec, Mixtec, or Aztec scripts, although it…

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