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    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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  • District of Belize. In 2000, the village of San Antonio had a population of 2,124 people. Its population is predominantly Yukatek-speaking Maya. v t e...
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  • Yum Kaax (Mayan pronunciation: [jum kʼaːʃ], "Lord of the forest") is a Yukatek Maya name for the god of the wild vegetation and guardian of its animals...
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    as [t] and [tʼ]. In Mamean they are reflected as [ts] and [tsʼ] and in Yukatek and Kʼichean as [tʃʰ] and [tʃʼ]. The Proto-Mayan liquid [r] is reflected...
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  • are most commonly referred to by their names in colonial-era Yucatec (Yukatek). In sequence, these (in the revised orthography) are as seen on the right:...
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    orthography of 16th-century Yucatec Maya in Spanish transcriptions (now Yukatek in the modernised style). In the Maya hieroglyphics writing system, the...
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    who rediscovered the site, meaning "ravine or canyon formed by water" in Yukatek Maya, after the site's most prominent and unusual feature, its surrounding...
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  • When mixed with wine, it is called olhombre which means "clashing" in Yukatek (Màaya t'àan). Ott, Jonathan (1998)The Delphic Bee: Bees and Toxic Honeys...
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    Mayan languages: Huastecan branch: Wastek language, Yucatecan branch: Yukatek Maya, Lacandón, Cholan branch: Ch'ol language, Chontal Maya language, Tzeltal...
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    (Teya, the Heart of a Woman 2008), is the first written by a woman in the Yukatek language. Ceh Moo was born in Calotmul on May 12, 1968. Ceh Moo earned...
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  • month names are known today by their corresponding names in colonial-era Yukatek Maya, as transcribed by 16th-century sources (in particular, Diego de Landa...
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  • three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (the others being Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil). It distinguishes between vowels with high...
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    state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The etymology of the site's name comes from Yukatek Maya, combining the roots xel ("spring") and ha' ("water"). The lagoon...
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  • Chinese, Malay (including Indonesian), Thai, Maya (linguistic nomenclature: "Yukatek Maya"), Vietnamese and in some analyses Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) and Guaraní...
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    nuún. The bark of L. violaceus (balché tree) is traditionally used by the Yukatek Maya version of the mildly intoxicating mead, balché, which was held in...
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  • popularity in the Maya regions of Mexico, with artists such as Pat Boy (Yukatek Maya) and Slajeʼm Kʼop (Tzotzil Maya). Agren, David (30 September 2014)...
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  • biennially since 2000 and includes a cash prize and diploma. Marisol Ceh Moo (Yukatek) Natalia Toledo (Zapotec) The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes...
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    a place of pilgrimage and ceremony. The name (chich'en itza in modern Yukatek orthography) means roughly "mouth of the well of the Itza", the "well"...
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    Classic records is known as Classic Mayan (Sharer & Traxler 2006, p. 132). Yukatek was previously proposed as a language used in some Classic records, but...
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  • of the Chiapas highlands believes that lightning comes from caves. The Yukatek and Lacandon believe that caves and cenotes are where rain deities reside...
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  • Emmy-Noether-Programme. In 2005 and 2006 Colas undertook fieldwork among the Yukatek-speaking Maya communities in and around San Antonio in Cayo District, Belize...
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