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		dreamcompiler 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an anc... Modern Maya are starting to learn how to read and write their own language again but that only happened in the last 40 years or so. (They never forgot how to speak it.) Most of their written knowledge was lost forever as you point out.

gessha 3 months ago [–]

Reboot magazine recently published an article about making a Mayan keyboard:

https://joinreboot.org/p/how-to-build-a-mayan-keyboard

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