Is there any chance for Maya hieroglyphs to survive in use in any form?

Maya hieroglyphs are the writing script used for classical Maya, unique for being one of the few independent inventions of writing in the world. They also have been in disuse since the Spanish conquest of the Maya.

Do they have any chance to continue being used? I think the classical form of the Maya script is probably impossible for this, but a simplification could be used for Maya languages (and beyond?). After all, isn't the modern Tifinagh script, used for some Berber languages, a recent invention based on the long-dead historic Tifinagh? Since the Maya would've been mostly illiterate at the point "Neo-Maya" is introduced, you can also see the example of Aboriginal syllabics in North America for a non-Latin script being used successfully to increase literacy in the native population.

The biggest issue is that the Maya script itself would need to be deciphered long before it was OTL, so you can have a "Neo-Maya" actually based on the original Maya script and not just an indirect relation to it like Cherokee is to Latin.

Who would do this? I think it's almost certain that it would be a missionary, whether Catholic or Protestant, or another churchman. Is there a way to set up an early decipherment of Maya combined with a drive to increase literacy amongst the Maya that results in a simplification of the script that is thus promulgated widely? I think the results could be interesting, especially if tied in with the Caste War and Chan Santa Cruz somehow, or any other indigenous movements in the Yucatan.
 
You dounderstand that the last people able to read the Maya script perished in the late seventeenth century, yes? One need only have the Maya convert and wholly adopt christianity, then mayanize it (along with a clergyman or two) and those clergymen+converted scribes will write bibles and all sorts more gubbery in that script. Also, it would stop that monk from burning the codices.
 
You dounderstand that the last people able to read the Maya script perished in the late seventeenth century, yes? One need only have the Maya convert and wholly adopt christianity, then mayanize it (along with a clergyman or two) and those clergymen+converted scribes will write bibles and all sorts more gubbery in that script. Also, it would stop that monk from burning the codices.

Yes, that's why I mentioned you'd need to either stop them from dying (good luck, between disease and Spanish brutality) or find a way to decipher the Maya script early, elsewise you'd just be making something vaguely based on Maya.

Diego de Landa's role seems to be pretty important in this if we want the original script to survive--it's ironic the guy who destroyed so much of their culture is also responsible for a lot of our understanding of the Maya script. However, I think the original script is pretty much doomed to die out once colonialism takes root, it just seems inefficient compared to Latin unless you create a simplification of it (which is very doable). Maybe if you had a Spanish religious leader in the region more genuinely interested in understanding Maya culture and by extension, the language and script, to keep knowledge of how it works alive and eventually lead to the simplification of it which the Maya adapt.
 
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