The language of the
Mayas also gives its name to a
family called Mayan, consisting of about seventy languages in Mexico and Guatemala. They include
Quiche (as in real Mayans don't...),
Mam,
Jacalteco,
Chol,
Huasteco,
Tzeltal, and
Tzotzil. One characteristic of them is that
syllables are typically
closed, that is of the form CVC.
See under Tzotzil for a simplified grammar of a Mayan language.
It is not Mayan of the once-mysterious glyphs, but it is related. For an introduction to the writing system you need pictures, which I shan't attempt here. There is a good introduction by Nancy McNelly at www.halfmoon.org/writing.html