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Meaning of glifo



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

glifo
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It is a Greek root that is used as a suffix or prefix in Spanish. It means carved, engraved, painted, carved, charted. Stroke, print or painting.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

From the Greek verb glypho, sculpt, burn, dig carving. Stroke or recorded and also written or painted sign, graphic representation of some element of writing and especially of maya writing, whose decipherment of the II Russian soldier got world war Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov in the 1950s after found on a street in Berlin in 1945 of the Prussian Library two books on the Mayan world.

  

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