ANTH 3310 Study Guide - Final Guide: Calvert Watkins, Tok Pisin, Maya Script
17 Feb 2016
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Slide 2: this image depicts a carved stone bench found in copan, honduras from. The discovery of this bench, engraved with mayan hieroglyphs, provided. Wichmann and other linguists with essential data for developing an accurate genealogical subgrouping of the ch"olan languages. For example, the bench shows instances of just. Ib being added to form the instrumental form of a verb, rather than -l-ib . Ch"orti allows this out of all ch"olan languages, including the closely related ch"olti. Slide 3: this is an image of a canadian airlines plane. The logo uses the symbol > rather than a or e in the word canadian/canadien. This was a clever alternative used by the airline for the bilingual name, as canada has english, french, and bilingual speakers. It could account for both spellings/pronunciations without choosing one over the other. Slide 5: this large, single-edged blade is an image of the thames scramaseux (anglo-
