Yucatec Maya (/ˈjuːkətɛk ˈmaɪə/ YOO-kə-tek MY-ə; referred to by its speakers as mayaʼ or maayaʼ t’aan [màːjaʔˈtʼàːn] ) is a Mayan language spoken in the...
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and Orange Walk in Belize. The vast majority of them speak the Yucatec Maya language, or maayat'aan (autoglottonym). The preclassical period spanned...
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Language. [citation needed] The oral language of the community is the Yucatec Maya language. In the highlands of Guatemala, Maya use a sign language that...
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small pockets in Guatemala. Yucatec Maya (known simply as "Maya" to its speakers) is the most commonly spoken Mayan language in Mexico. It is currently...
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Yucatec Maya; that term refers to only the language, and the correct name for the people is simply Maya (not Mayans). (Yucatec) Maya is one language in...
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the source, most names are either Yucatec or Kʼicheʼ. The Classic Period names (belonging to the Classic Maya language) are only rarely known with certainty...
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Chichen Itza (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
Itza in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) Yucatec Maya pronunciation was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic...
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Mayan language is one of a group of languages spoken by the Mayan people of Mesoamerica. Mayan language may also refer to: Yucatec Maya language or Maya, a...
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2012 phenomenon (redirect from 2012 and the Maya Calendar)
Luxton, Richard N. (1996). The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya, 1539–1638. Walnut Creek, CA: Agaean Park Press. ISBN 978-0-89412-244-6...
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Chilam Balam (category Maya mythology and religion)
ɓahlam]) are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving...
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Jesús Pat Chablé (category Yucatec Maya language)
stage name Pat Boy Rap Maya or Pat Boy, is a Mexican singer and rapper who is Maya and often raps in the Yucatec Maya language. Pat Boy is regarded as...
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the University of Chicago. Lucy has worked extensively with the Yucatec Maya language, specializing in the system of noun classification. John Lucy is...
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Open O (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet. The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ to transcribe the alveolar ejective...
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Mérida, Yucatán (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
Mérida (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾiða] , Yucatec Maya: Joꞌ) is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico...
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Mexico (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
than 1.7 million, followed by Yucatec Maya used daily by nearly 850,000 people. Tzeltal and Tzotzil, two other Mayan languages, are spoken by around half...
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Cancún (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
the Riviera Maya. According to early Spanish sources, the island of Cancún was originally known to its Maya inhabitants as Nizuc (Yucatec Maya: niʔ suʔuk)...
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Apocalypto (category Yucatec Maya language)
were Maya. Additionally, all dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting, and the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan language is...
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Hilario Chi Canul (category Mexican people of Maya descent)
16 October 1981) is a Mexican linguist of Maya ethnicity who worked as a translator and Yucatec Maya language coach in the production of the 2006 movie...
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over the entire Maya-speaking area, but texts were also written in other Mayan languages of the Petén and Yucatán, especially Yucatec. There is also some...
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Bacalar (category Articles with Yucatec Maya-language sources (yua))
OCLC 26611093. (in Spanish and Yucatec Maya) Bolles, David (1997). "Combined Dictionary–Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language" (revised 2003). Foundation...
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Theobroma cacao (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
given to the plant in indigenous Mesoamerican languages such as kakaw in Tzeltal, Kʼicheʼ and Classic Maya; kagaw in Sayula Popoluca; and cacahuatl in Nahuatl...
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Yucatán (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
name of this region was Mayab. In the Yucatec Maya language, mayab means "flat", and is the source of the word "Maya" itself. The name Yucatán, also assigned...
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blue/green are also found in Mayan languages; for example, in the Yucatec Maya language, yax is 'blue/green'. Tupian languages did not originally differ between...
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Mesoamerican ballgame (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
archaeologist Frans Blom, who adapted it from the Yucatec Maya word pokolpok. In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, it was called ōllamaliztli (oːlːamaˈlistɬi)...
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Wayob (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
is the plural form of way (or uay), a Maya word with a basic meaning of 'sleep(ing)', but which in Yucatec Maya is a term specifically denoting the Mesoamerican...
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Campeche (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
was only 215,600. The most commonly spoken indigenous language spoken in the state is Yucatec Maya, with 71,852 speakers. This is followed by Chol, with...
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Dzuluinicob (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
zool-WEE-nih-cawb; Yucatec Maya: u kuchkabal Ts'ulwinikob; Mayan pronunciation: [u kutʃ.ka.ˈbal t͡sʼul.ˌwiː.niː.ˈkoɓ]) was a Postclassic Maya state in the Yucatán...
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Mesoamerican chronology (redirect from Maya Classic Period)
Feathered Serpent and the rain god, who in the Yucatec Maya language is called Chaac. The beginnings of Maya culture date from the development of Kaminaljuyu...
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Kʼicheʼ Título de Totonicapán, the Kʼicheʼ language Rabinal Achi, the Annals of the Kaqchikels, the Yucatec Songs of Dzitbalche and Diego de Landa's Relación...
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
that Huerta referred to as the "shame shorts". He also learned the Yucatec Maya language and how to swim. Manuel Chavez portrays a young Namor. Martin Freeman...
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