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| Keywords: De Landa alphabet.jpg Image of the page from Diego de Landa's 16thC manuscript Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán in which he describes the famous de Landa alphabet This alphabet shows the letters of the Spanish language and the Maya hieroglyphics symbols which were supposed to correspond with them according to de Landa's interpretation This alphabet would later prove to be instrumental in the decipherment of the Maya civilization's script once interpreted correctly as essentially a syllabary by the Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov As reproduced originally in Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg's 1863 republication PD-old Maya writing Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg Syllabary charts Diego de Landa | ||||
