such as verbal inflections which did not have dedicated logograms (similar to Japanese okurigana). For example, b'alam 'jaguar' could be written as a single logogram, ; a logogram with syllable additions, as ba-, or -ma, or b'a--ma; or written completely phonetically with syllabograms as b'a-la-ma.

In addition, some syllable glyphs were homophones, such as the six different glyphs used to write the very common third person pronoun