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for the 20th named-day of the Tzolkin Maya Calendar cycle, ''Ajaw'' (this version typical of many monumental inscriptions).]] The word comes from the Mayan Languages , and is known from several of these languages in use at the time (such as in Classic Maya ), as well as in their contemporary descendent languages (in which there may be observed some slight variations). "Ajaw" is the modernised Orthography , as per the standard revision of Mayan orthography put forward in 1994 by the Guatemala n ''Acadamia de Lenguas Mayas'', and now widely adopted by Mayanist scholars. Before this standardisation, it was more commonly written as "Ahau", following the orthography of 16th-century Yucatec Maya in Spanish transcriptions (now ''Yukatek'' in the modernised style). In the Maya Hieroglyphics Writing System , the representation of the word ''ajaw'' could be as either a Logogram , or spelled-out Syllabically . In either case quite a few Glyph ic variants are known. "Ajaw" is also the name of the 20th named-day in the '' Tzolk'in '' portion of the Maya Calendar .
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