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The Tiger Poem in Classical Maya!

The Tiger
He has destroyed his cage
Yes
Yes
The tiger is out
By Nael, Age 6

Literal translation:

he-destroyed his-captive-place
the-jaguar yes-yes
he-came.out the-jaguar
his-writing master-Na’el
man[of]-6-years

Transliteration:

ʔu-jomow ʔu-baaknal
ʔu-balahm
xt
xt
Joyoy ʔu-balahm
ʔu-tz’ibaal Aj-Naʔel Aj-6-habiy

Character Transliteration (ALL CAPS are characters that stand for full words, lower case are syllabic):

ʔu-jo-mo-wa ʔu-ba-ki-NAL
ʔu-BALAM-la-ma xa-ta-xa-ta
jo-JOY-yi ʔu-BALAM-ma
ʔu-tz’i-ba-li AJ-na-ʔe-le
AJ-6-HAB-bi-ya

[Image shows the poem written in 2 columns of Maya glyph blocks. A diagram shows the reading order (which is complex). All the posts text is also included on the image.

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