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== Revival == In recent times, there has been an increased interest in reviving usage of the script. Various works have recently been both transliterated and created into the script, notably the transcription of the [[Popol Vuh]], a record of [[Kʼicheʼ people|Kʼicheʼ]] religion, in 2018.{{fact|date=December 2024}} Another example is the sculpting and writing of a modern [[stele]] placed at [[Iximche]] in 2012, describing the full historical record of the site dating back to the beginning of the [[Mayan long count]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Matsumoto |first1=Mallory E. |title=La estela de Iximche' en el contexto de la revitalización lingüística y la recuperación jeroglífica en las comunidades mayas de guatemala |trans-title=The stela of Iximche 'in the context of linguistic revitalization and hieroglyphic recovery in the Mayan communities of Guatemala |language=es |journal=Estudios de Cultura Maya |date=2015 |volume=45 |issue=45 |pages=225–258 |doi=10.1016/S0185-2574(15)30008-3 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The 2014 poem "Cigarra", by Martín Gómez Ramírez, was written entirely in [[Tzeltal language|Tzeltal]] using the script.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2016/02/13/oja-cigarra.html|title=Ojarasca-Xikitin/Cigarra Un poema tseltal en glifos mayas}}</ref>
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