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    Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...
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    The Mesoamerican language area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is...
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    The Uto-Aztecan languages are a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost...
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    Qanjobalan, Mamean and Chʼolan–Tzeltalan branches. Mayan languages form part of the Mesoamerican language area, an area of linguistic convergence developed throughout...
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    /ˌoʊtoʊˈmæŋɡiːən/ languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are...
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  • distinct language, while others consider it a dialect of Awakatek. Mesoamerican languages Mesoamerican Linguistic Area List of Oto-Manguean languages...
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  • the languages of the area. These surviving texts give anthropologists and historians valuable insight into the origins of Mesoamerican languages, culture...
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    have argued, based on a number of widespread loanwords in other Mesoamerican languages, that it is likely that the Olmec people, generally seen as the...
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    The Mesoamerican ballgame (Nahuatl languages: ōllamalīztli, Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːlːamaˈlistɬi], Mayan languages: pitz) was a sport with ritual associations...
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  • been a Nahuan language instead. Corachol languages are Mesoamerican languages, and display many of the traits defined by the Mesoamerican linguistic area...
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    alongside other indigenous Mesoamerican languages, they have absorbed many influences, coming to form part of the Mesoamerican language area. Many words from...
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  • object (such as "me" or "her" in English). Languages with active–stative alignment are often called active languages. The case or agreement of the intransitive...
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    The Misumalpan languages (also Misumalpa or Misuluan) are a small family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples on the east coast of Nicaragua and nearby...
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    variety of Chibchan languages has been identified. A larger family called Macro-Chibchan, which would contain the Misumalpan languages, Xinca, and Lenca...
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    Mesoamerica (redirect from Mesoamerican)
    speak their ancestral languages and maintain many practices hearkening back to their Mesoamerican roots. Ancient Mesoamerican sites in El Salvador Holy...
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    traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from...
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    /ˈzæpətɛk/ languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family...
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  • share numerous areal features with other languages of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, such as the Mayan languages and Nahuatl. Recent work suggests a possible...
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    Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE);...
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  • one of the few languages besides the Malagasy language of Madagascar to make use of an n-trema character in its alphabet. In both languages, the n-trema...
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  • Mayan languages. Front. Psychol. 10:2442. Pye, Clifton (2021). "Documenting the acquisition of indigenous languages". Journal of Child Language. 48 (3):...
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    Vigesimal (category Articles with text in Mayan languages)
    Other languages have terms similar to score, such as Danish and Norwegian snes. In regions where greater aspects of the Brythonic Celtic languages have...
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    Olmecs (redirect from Olmec languages)
    artworks The Olmecs (/ˈɒlmɛks, ˈoʊl-/) were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, flourishing in the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz...
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    is a Mesoamerican language and has many of the traits of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. In 2003, along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it was...
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  • resources in and about the Lenca language Audio Recording of an Elicitation and Wordlist in Lenca from the MesoAmerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell...
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    Sinca, or Szinca) is a small extinct family of Mesoamerican languages, formerly regarded as a single language isolate, once spoken by the indigenous Xinca...
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  • The Kaqchikel language (in modern orthography; formerly also spelled Cakchiquel or Cachiquel) is an indigenous Mesoamerican language and a member of the...
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    jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures has a long history, with iconographic examples dating back to at least the mid-Formative period of Mesoamerican chronology...
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  • They also published two articles proposing a "Mesoamerican Phylum" composed of Macro-Mayan and other language families of Mesoamerica. This proposal was...
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    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...
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