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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mayan (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
Central America Mayan languages, language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America Yucatec Maya language, language spoken in the Yucatán...
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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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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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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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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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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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against the turbulent end times of a Maya civilization. The sparse dialogue is spoken in the Yucatec Maya language by a cast of Native American descent...
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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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Tulum (category Articles containing Yucatec Maya-language text)
Tulum (Spanish pronunciation: [tuˈlun], Yucatec Maya: Tulu'um) is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba,...
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Kukulkan (category Maya deities)
origins among the Maya of the Classic Period. Little is known of the mythology of this Pre-Columbian era deity. In the Yucatec Maya language, the name is spelt...
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Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had been enslaved by a Maya lord. Aguilar had learnt the Yucatec Maya language and became Cortés' interpreter. From Cozumel, the...
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