Ancient and Modern Maya

Dictionaries, Grammars, Mayan Writing, & Other Resources

 

Dictionaries 

Calepino maya de Motul, by Antonio de Ciudad Real ; edición crítica y anotada por René Acuña. México: Plaza y Valdes Editores, 2001. Wells Research Stacks PM3966.C54 2001

 

Coordinacion alfabetica de las voces del idioma maya que se hallan en el arte y obras del padre fr. Pedro Beltran de Santa Rosa, con las equivalencias castellanas que en las mismas se hallan, compuesta por J.P. Pérez. Mérida de Yucatán: Impr. de la Ermita, 1898. B-ALF PM3966.P43

 

Diccionario bilingüe: maya mopán y español, español y maya mopán, compilado por E. Matthew Ulrich, Rosemary Dixon de Ulrich. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Instituto Lingüistico de Verano en Guatemala, 1976. Wells Research Stacks PM3941.Z5 U67 1976

 

Diccionario de elementos del maya yucateco colonial, by Mauricio Swadesh, Ma. Cristina Alvarez [y] Juan R. Bastarrachea. México, UNAM, Coordinación de Humanidades, 1970. B-ALF PM3966.S9 1970

 

Diccionario español-maya, by Ermilo Solís Alcalá. México: Yikal Maya Than, 1950. B-ALF PM3966.S68 Diccionario maya: maya-español, español-maya, by Alfredo Barrera Vásquez. 4th ed. México: Porrúa, 2001. Wells Research Stacks PM3966.D528 2001

 

Diccionario maya Cordemex: maya-español, español-maya, by Alfredo Barrera Vásquez. Mérida, Yucatán, México: Ediciones Cordemex, 1980. Wells Ref. PM3966.D53

 

Diccionario de San Francisco, edited by Oscar Michelon. Graz: Akadem. Druck- u. Verlagsanst., 1976. B-ALF PM3966.D5

 

A dictionary of the Maya language: as spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán, by Victoria R. Bricker, Eleuterio Po‘ot Yah, Ofelia Dzul de Po‘ot ; with a botanical index by Anne S. Bradburn. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998. PM3966.B75 1998

 

Muuchotoan mopan, by Koulboil Yol Twitz Paxil ; Muchotalil Toan Maya Mopan = Vocabulario mopan. Guatemala: Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala: Comunidad Lingüística Maya Mopan, 2003. Wells Research Stacks PM3969.5.M65 M88 2003

 

Grammars 

Compendio del idioma maya, Para aprender en muy poco tiempo la lengua maya, by Pacheco Gruz. 2nd corrected and expanded ed. Mérida, Yucatán, México: Imprenta Constitucionalista, 1920. Wells Research Stacks PM3963.P11

 

A grammar of the Yucatecan Mayan language, by David & Alejandra Bolles. Revised ed. Lancaster, Calif.: Labyrinthos, 2001. Wells Research Stacks PM3963.B65 2001

 

Introducción al estudio de la lengua maya: resumen del curso, by Antonio Mediz Bolio. México: Universidad Nacional de México, Escuela de Verano, 1943. Wells Research Stacks PM3962.M42 1943

 

A Maya grammar: with bibliography and appraisement of the works noted, by Alfred M. Tozzer. New York: Dover Publications, 1977. Wells Research Stacks PM3963.T6 1977

 

Hablen cada uno según su idioma = Chixch'awab'a' chixtzijonab'a jujunal pa le uch'ab'al: idiomas mayas y su didáctica, by Esedir Mayab' Saqarab'al; elaborado por Aurelio Domingo Hurtado Montejo. Mixco, Guatemala: ESEDIR: Editorial Saqil Tzij, 2000. Wells Research Stacks PM3961.H335 2000

 

Introducción a la lingüística: idiomas mayas, by Nora C. England. Antigua, Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín: Editorial Kamar, 1988. Wells Research Stacks PM3963.E54 1988

 

Maya' chii': los idiomas mayas de Guatemala, by Nora C. England. Guatemala: Editorial Cholsamaj, 1993. Wells Research Stacks PM3965.M39 1993

 

Mayan Writing 

A catalog of Maya hieroglyphs,by Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson. University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. Wells Research Stacks PM3962.T45

 

Clave fonética de los jeroglíficos mayas, by Héctor M. Calderón. México, Editorial Orión, 1962. Wells Research Stacks PM3962.C14

 

Cómo se leen los jeroglíficos de la cronología maya: sinopsis preliminar, by Enrique Juan Palacios; dibujos de Luis Orellana. México: Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1932. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 P15

 

Compendio Xcaret de la escritura jeroglífica maya, decifrada por Yuri V. Knórosov ; edición preparada por Patricia Rodríguez Ochoa, Edgar Gómez Marín, Myriam Cerda González. 3 vols. Mexico: Universidad de Quintana Roo: Promotora Xcaret, 1999. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 K56 1999

 

Corpus of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions, by Ian Graham. 9 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1975-1992. B-ALF F1435.3.P6 G73

 

Deciphering Maya hieroglyphs, by Christopher Jones ; illustrated by Carl P. Beetz. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1984. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 J66 1984

 

Deciphering the Maya script, by David Humiston Kelley. Austin: University of Texas Press, c1976. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 K29

 

The decipherment of ancient Maya writing, edited by Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos & David Stuart. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 D39 2001

 

Dictionary of Maya hieroglyphs, by John Montgomery. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 M656 2002

 

A grammar of Mayan hieroglyphs, by Victoria R. Bricker. New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1986. Wells Research Stacks F1421.T9 no.56

 

How to read Maya hieroglyphs, by John Montgomery. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 M66 2002

 

Introducción a los glifos mayas. La clave de los glifos mayas. La fiesta de las abejas. By W. Cordan. México: Manual Moderno, 1969. Wells Research Stacks PM3962.C794

 

The linguistics of Maya writing, by edited by Søren Wichmann. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 L54 2004

 

Maya hieroglyphic writing; an introduction, by Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson. 2nd ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Wells Research Stacks PM3962.T46

 

Maya hieroglyphs without tears, by J. Eric S. Thompson. London: British Museum, 1972. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 T4

 

A new approach to Maya hieroglyphs, by W. Jos. de Gruyter. Amsterdam, H. J. Paris, 1946. Wells Research Stacks PM3010.G88

 

The new catalog of Maya hieroglyphs, by Martha J. Macri, Matthew G. Looper ; grapheme drawings by Matthew G. Looper. Vol. 1. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003-. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 M33 2003 v.1

 

Maya: the complete catalogue of glyph readings, compiled by Kornelia Kurbjuhn. Kassel: Schneider & Weber, 1989. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 K87 1989

 

Maya glyphs, by S.D. Houston. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; London: British Museum, 1989. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 H67 1989

 

Maya glyphs, the verbs, by Linda Schele. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 S27 1982

 

Maya’ tz’ib’: introducción a la escritura Maya, by Obdulio Son Chonay y Pakal B’alam José O. Rodríguez. Guatemala, C.A.: Editorial Cholsamaj, 1994. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 R63 1994

 

An outline dictionary of Maya glyphs, with a concordance and analysis of their relationships: with the author's "Glyph studies" reprinted from the Maya Society quarterly, by William Gates. New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 G38 1978

 

Paléographie maya, by Vollemaere A.L. 6 vols. Mechelen, België: A.L. Vollemaere, 1979-<1980 > Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.P6 V65 1979

 

Reading the Maya glyphs, by Michael D. Coe, Mark van Stone. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 C64 2001

 

Steps = Pasos: en el desciframiento de la escritura jeroglífica maya: Spanish & English, by J. & P. Kanellis. Mérida, Yucatán, México: Multicolor, 1990. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 K36 1990

 

Understanding Maya inscriptions: a hieroglyph handbook, by John F. Harris and Stephen K. Stearns. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1997. Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 H37 1997

 

Other Resources 

Acateco de la frontera sur, by Roberto Zavala Maldonado. México: El Colegio de México, 1992. Wells Research Stacks PM3512.Z18 1992

 

Bibliography of Mayan languages and linguistics, by Lyle Campbell ; with Pierre Ventur, Russell Stewart, and Brant Gardner. Albany, N.Y.: Institute for MesoAmerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany, 1978. B-ALF Z7121.M4 B5

 

Bibliografía sobre lingüística maya, 1950-1995, compiled by Julia B. Richards. Guatemala: Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ; UNICEF, 1996. Wells Research Stacks Z7121.M2 B53 1996

 

Del cora al maya yucateco: estudios linguísticos sobre algunas lenguas indígenas mexicanas, edited by Paulette Levy. México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2002. Wells Research Stacks PM3961.D45 2002

 

Epigrafía maya y lingüística mayance: bibliografía preliminar = Épigraphie maya et linguistique mayane: bibliographie préliminaire, by Daniel Cazes. Paris: SELAF, 1976. B-ALF Z1210.M4 C38

 

Las etnias del Estado de Chiapas: castellanización y bibliografías, by Irma Contreras García. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Investigaciiones Bibliográficas: Programa de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Mesoamérica y el Sureste, 2001. Wells Research Stacks Z7121.M2 C65 2001

 

Lecturas sobre la lingüística maya, edited by Nora C. England, Stephen R. Elliott. La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica ; South Woodstock, Vt.: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1990. Wells Research Stacks PM3961.L37 1990

 

Person prominence and relation prominence: on the typology of syntactic relations with special reference to Yucatec Maya, by Christian Lehmann, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven. München : Lincom Europa, 2000. Rsta PM3969 .L45 2000

 

Possession in Yucatec Maya, by Christian Lehmann. München : LINCOM EUROPA, 1998. Rsta PM3963 .L455 1998

 

A resource bibliography for the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs and new Maya hieroglyph readings, by John F. Harris. Philadelphia: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.Wells Research Stacks F1435.3.W75 H368 1994

 

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