The Mesoamerican language area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is...

Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...

documented, among them, the Balkan language area, the Mesoamerican language area, and the Ethiopian language area. Also, larger areas such as South Asia, Europe...

proposed the possibility that the language family originated in southern Mexico, within the Mesoamerican language area, but this has not been generally...

other Indigenous Mesoamerican languages, they have absorbed many influences, coming to form part of the Mesoamerican language area. Many words from Nahuatl...

Mamean and Chʼolan–Tzeltalan branches. Mayan languages form part of the Mesoamerican language area, an area of linguistic convergence developed throughout...

have received Mesoamerican influences, which is reflected by the fact that Wixarika has features typical to the Mesoamerican language area. Their spirituality...

The Mesoamerican ballgame (Nahuatl languages: ōllamalīztli, Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːlːamaˈlistɬi], Mayan languages: pitz) was a sport with ritual associations...

speak their ancestral languages and maintain many practices hearkening back to their Mesoamerican roots. Ancient Mesoamerican sites in El Salvador Holy...

does not share many of the traits defining the Mesoamerican language area, suggesting that the language is a remnant of an indigenous substrate that existed...

the languages of the area. These surviving texts give anthropologists and historians valuable insight into the origins of Mesoamerican languages, culture...

principally characteristic of pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, although other Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya and the Zapotec practiced it as well. The...

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE);...

cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America. Mesoamerica(n) or Meso-America(n) may also refer to: Mesoamerican language area, a linguistic...

part of a sprachbund called the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. However Oto-Manguean also stands out from the other language families of Mesoamerica in several...

name. As a result, the word for “day” also means “name” in some Mesoamerican languages. Each day sign was presided over by a god and many had associations...

Wikimedia Incubator Aztec codices List of extinct languages of North America Mesoamerican language area "Ethnologue summary for Classical Nahuatl". Archived...

to the Mesoamerican civilizations of the Aztec and Maya, and by language to the Mesoamerican language area. The Chorotegas were Mangue language ethnic...

disputes remain as to its political system, area of influence and its relations with contemporary Mesoamerican cities, especially with Chichen Itza. The...

distinct language, while others consider it a dialect of Awakatek. Mesoamerican languages Mesoamerican Linguistic Area List of Oto-Manguean languages...

defined by the Mesoamerican linguistic area, or sprachbund. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge...

which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it is recognised as an official language of Mexico, though...

Brown, Cecil; Wichmann, Soren; Beck, Dacid (2014). "Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican Language Spoken in the Lower Mississippi Valley". International Journal of...

artworks The Olmecs (/ˈɒlmɛks, ˈoʊl-/) or Olmec were an early known major Mesoamerican civilization, flourishing in the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz...

Much of Purépecha culture is very distinct from other Mesoamerican cultures. The Purépecha language has more in common with Zuni in the southwest U.S. and...

A Mesoamerican ballcourt (Nahuatl languages: tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the...

Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan...

the principal commonalities used in defining the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. The so-called "language of Zuyua [es]", which was used by some of the nobility...

Ancient Mesoamericans were the first people to invent rubber balls (Nahuatl languages: ōllamaloni), sometime before 1600 BCE, and used them in a variety...

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya...