Show SAIS MAYA PHONETIC dr sylvanus G morley said about twenty years or so ago that the writing of 0 the mayas was just on the borderland of developing in its next phase to now a young student in yale claims to have read a brief sentence or two from one of the ancient books writ teon 10 n prepared skins sometimes ou teal a I 1 beaten leaves called a codex ehtee only oi ot these exist A copy of all three n black and white not col ore is in the chronicle office tor for anyone to see who Is interested this young man says that in as calendar making and in literature the maya could hold their own with any contemporary race A purported alphabet about fit ty years ago put forth proved to be in error and was finally dropped this student says that it was not A fully developed phonetic system like ours of 26 characters but one bordering on using sev eral hundred characters all of which must be slowly worked out to fully read all of their writing he ile gives a sentence from the tro cort and another from the dresden co dei |