This glossary lists terms often found or noted in scholarly literature on the Maya civilisation. It includes: phrases in or from Mayan languages, terms of art employed particularly by Mayanist scholars, and names of things or entities which predated the 18th century. It excludes: technical terms not used solely by Mayanists, names of individuals, names of archaeological sites, and names of things or entities which only dated to or post-dated the 18th century.

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See also Glossary of history

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External links Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayanofficial interface of the eponymous project by the University of Bonn Maya Image Archivealternative interface of and by the same Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptionsother corpus by the Peabody Museum Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin Americaother corpus of an eponymous project by UT Austin