JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Diego De Landa, Maya Civilization, Orthographic Depth
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Question 4 any instances of non-linearity question 3 is list all diacritics. There were three symbols for /n/ because it"s a deep orthography there could be multiple reasons for three /n/ symbols could be fossils from borrowed words like thai where moon as spelled like. Sanskrit; go through the list of deep orthography things and pick what is most plausible. In phonology, everything must have a reason and rule but in writing systems and spelling, there are a lot of things that are not proven by rule and have to look into other aspects of deep orthography. Assignment 2 already up on blackboard due a week this friday!!! Can hand it in next class or drop it off in the linguistics department drop box like last time. Olmec script is oldest writing discovered in americas. Mask from omek culture entire back of mask covered in writing. Very difficult to tell consequently what it means.
