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The Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, or ALMG (English: Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages) is a Guatemalan organisation that regulates the use of the 22 Mayan languages spoken within the borders of the republic. It has expended particular efforts on standardising the various writing systems used. [1]
Mayatan Bilingual School is a non-profit, private, independent bilingual (Spanish/English) co-educational day school located in Copán Ruinas, Copán, Honduras.In the 2010–11 school year the enrollment was 300 students from Pre-Kinder through 11th grade.
Map of the Maya region showing locations of some of the principal cities. Click to enlarge. Until the 1960s, scholarly opinion was that the ruins of Maya centres were not true cities but were rather empty ceremonial centres where the priesthood performed religious rituals for the peasant farmers, who lived dispersed in the middle of the jungle. [11]
A state-controlled company, the Compañia Forestal de la Lacandon S.A., was created to contract Lacandón communities for logging rights of their land. Unfortunately, NAFINSA controlled most of the royalties made by the company, 70%, as opposed to the 30% that the Lacandón communities received. [6]
Maya Erskine is an American actress and writer. She is known for her roles as Maggie in Man Seeking Woman, [1] Mikki in Betas, and Mizu in Blue Eye Samurai.From 2019 to 2021, she starred in Hulu's original TV comedy series PEN15 alongside Anna Konkle; [2] the duo, who co-created, co-wrote, and co-executive produced the series, played fictional versions of their 13-year-old selves. [3]
El Perú (also known as Waka '), is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site occupied during the Preclassic and Classic cultural chronology periods (roughly 500 BC to 800 AD). The site was the capital of a Maya city-state and is located near the banks of the San Pedro River in the Department of Petén of northern Guatemala.
Escuela Nueva was founded in the mid-1970s by Vicky Colbert, [2] along with Beryl Levinger and Oscar Mogollón as co-founders. Colbert's family had a strong involvement in education. Her mother had set up teacher training colleges in Colombia and her grandfather had been Colombia's minister of education. [1]
Schele and Freidel, Maya Cosmos. 1993. Taube, The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatán. Tedlock, Time and the Highland Maya. 1992. Thompson, Maya History and Religion. 1970; Tozzer, Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán. 1941. Zender, A Study of Classic Maya Priesthood. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, University of ...