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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Convergent Evolution of Languages in the Americas
Mayan languages and other indigenous languages of the Americas developed on their own. The Aztec spoke a language called Nawak, which is a Yudo Aztecan language related to some languages like Hopi in the Southwest US. None of these languages really have connections to the old world, to Indo-European or anything else. So it's true they are independently tracking and developing.
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