What Spanish words do you need to talk about the Maya?
La pirámide is the pyramid, la selva the rainforest, la escritura a writing system and el signo a sign or glyph, el calendario the calendar, el antepasado the ancestor, quedar vacío to be left empty, as the cities were, and la cancha, in Latin America, the court or pitch.
Words for the Maya world
- la pirámide
- the pyramid
- la selva
- the rainforest, the jungle
- la escritura
- writing, a writing system
- el signo
- the sign, the glyph
- el calendario
- the calendar
- quedar vacío
- to be left empty
- el antepasado
- the ancestor
- la cancha
- the court, the pitch
En Tikal, en la selva de Guatemala, hay pirámides de setenta metros.In Tikal, in the jungle of Guatemala, there are pyramids seventy metres high.
Nadie sabe exactamente por qué: quizás sequías, guerras o hambre.Nobody knows exactly why: perhaps droughts, wars or famine.
Me dijeron que las gradas son dieciocho por los meses del calendario maya.They told me the steps are eighteen, for the months of the Maya calendar.