Editing Phonetic complement (section)

==In the Maya Script==
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The [[Maya script|Maya Script]], the logosyllabic orthography of the [[Maya Civilization]], used phonetic complements extensively<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unc.edu/~davidmm/FullComplementspaper.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 17, 2011 |archive-date=May 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515220059/http://www.unc.edu/~davidmm/FullComplementspaper.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and phonetic complements could be used synharmonically or disharmonically.<ref>DISHARMONY IN MAYA HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING: LINGUISTIC CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN CLASSIC SOCIETY</ref> The former is exemplified by the placement of the [[Syllabary|syllabogram]] for ''ma'' underneath the [[logogram]] for "[[jaguar]]" (in [[Classic Maya]], ''[[wikt:balam#Epigraphic_Mayan|BALAM]]''): thus, though pronounced "''BALAM''", the word for "jaguar" was spelled "''BALAM-m(a)''". Disharmonic spellings also existed<ref>{{Cite web| title=Writing in Maya Glyphs | url=http://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/MayaGlyphsBook1Sect1.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515074420/http://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/MayaGlyphsBook1Sect1.pdf | archive-date=2008-05-15}}</ref> in the Maya Script.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/handbook/WH2005.pdf | title=Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs | access-date=January 17, 2011 | archive-date=August 20, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820144654/http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/handbook/WH2005.pdf | url-status=dead}}</ref>

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| footer = Two different ways of writing the word ''bʼalam'' '[[jaguar]]' in the Maya script – first, as a [[logogram]] representing the entire word with the single [[glyph]] {{smallcaps|bʼalam}}, and then, phonetically using the three syllable signs ''bʼa'', ''la'', and ''ma''
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| footer = Three ways to write ''bʼalam'' using combinations of the logogram with the syllabic signs as phonetic complements. The usage is analogous to [[Sinograph]]s with ''[[okurigana]]'' in Japanese, and [[Sumerogram]] in Akkadian. 
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