The Maya Script, the logosyllabic orthography of the Maya Civilization, used phonetic complements extensively[1] and phonetic complements could be used synharmonically or disharmonically.[2] The former is exemplified by the placement of the syllabogram for ma underneath the logogram for "Jaguar" (in Classic Maya, BALAM): thus, though pronounced "BALAM", the word for "jaguar" was spelled "BALAM-m(a)". Disharmonic spellings also existed[3] in the Maya Script.[4]