Yucatecan languages

The Yucatecan languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.

Yucatecan
Geographic
distribution
Mesoamerica
Linguistic classificationMayan
  • Yucatecan
Subdivisions
  • Mopan–Itza
  • Yucatec–Lacandon
Glottologyuca1252[1]
Current extent of the Yucatecan languages in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala

Languages

The Mayan languages in the Yucatecan branch are:

  • Mopan–Itza: Itzaʼ (1,090 speakers), Mopan (9,000-12,000 speakers)
  • Yucatec–Lacandon: Maya (Yukatek) (792,113 speakers), Lakantun (Lacandon) (600 speakers)

All the Yucatecan languages are closely linked with each other. However, people speaking Itzaʼ and those speaking Yucatec do have difficulties understanding each other.

gollark: It takes me AT LEAST two hours of manual work before I have enough automation up for some sort of automatic ore generation.
gollark: I mostly just do 11 because something something lava.
gollark: They seem to want them.
gollark: Also, can someone send DS these additional bees?
gollark: There is literally nothing stopping you except some amount of social pressure.

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yucatecan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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