Maya Linguistic Mythology

THE MAYA LINGUISTIC MYTHOLOGY

A WORK IN PROGRESS

CRITICAL NOTES

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I have been working on many languages in my long life, and I learned the language of my passport at the age of six at school. I still use my old creolized version of Occitan when I am “home” and I left that home definitely in 1976, but I went there a couple of times for short visits or a vacation.

I crashed Pali in two weeks, the basics, in Sri Lanka in 2005 to be able to read the Dhammapada since I discovered when I arrived in Sigiriya that I was supposed to teach the English of Buddhism to young Buddhist monks in Pidurangala Monastery.

I have been working on the emergence of Homo Sapiens in Black Africa and then their migrations out of Black Africa starting with their first migration to Northern Africa, mainly. And then the other migrations out of Black Africa to the whole world, which is slightly more than what Homo Erectus did in his own days. And I followed the phylogenetic emergence of human articulated language and came to the idea that the three vast migrations out of Black Africa correspond to the three vast families of languages based respectively on the…