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Title: The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan
Author: Daniel G. Brinton
Release Date: December 20, 2011 [EBook #38352]
Language: English
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THE
Ancient Phonetic Alphabet
OF
YUCATAN.
By D. G. BRINTON, M. D.
New York:
J. SABIN & SONS, No. 84 NASSAU STREET.
1870.
THE
Ancient Phonetic Alphabet
OF
YUCATAN.
ost readers are quite familiar with the fact that a well-developed method of picture writing, or didactic painting,
as it has been appropriately named, prevailed through Mexico and Central America for centuries before the conquest. But that, in the latter country, there was a true phonetic alphabet, is one of the more recent discoveries of American archæology, and certainly one of the most interesting, as it promises to restore to us the records of the most cultivated nation of ancient America for a number of centuries previous to the advent of the white man.
It is well-known that the forests of Yucatan