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Raymond G. Gordon Jr. (ed.), Language family trees : Mayan, in Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th edition), Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Factual corrections (= update of the language tree model) and group names; David F. Mora-Marín, Proto-Ch'olan as the Standard Language of Classic Lowland Mayan Texts, Current Anthropology
Mayan languages are spoken by at least six million Maya people, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name, [1] [notes 2] and Mexico recognizes eight within its territory. The Mayan language family is one of the best-documented and most studied in the ...
English: A genealogy tree for the Mayan languages, based on an earlier tree. Date: 10 May 2020: ... Language family; Global file usage. The following other wikis use ...
The Mayan languages are a group of languages spoken by the Maya peoples. The Maya form an enormous group of approximately 7 million people who are descended from an ancient Mesoamerican civilization and spread across the modern-day countries of: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
English: A genealogy tree for the Mayan languages, based on an earlier tree. Date: 14 July 2015: Source: Own work based on: Mayan Language Tree in colour.png: Author:
Proto-Mayan is the hypothetical common ancestor of the 30 living Mayan languages, as well as the Classic Maya language documented in the Maya inscriptions.While there has been some controversy with Mayan subgrouping, there has been a general agreement that the following are the main five subgroups of the family: Huastecan, Yucatecan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Kanjobalan-Chujean, and Quichean-Mamean.
English: Present geographic distribution of Mayan languages in Mexico and Central America. Coloring indicates internal divisions in the family. Sources: Law, Danny. 2014. Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
The splitting of Proto-Mayan into the modern Mayan languages slowly began at roughly 2000 BCE when the speakers of Huastec moved north into the Mexican Gulf Coast region. Uto-Aztecan languages were still outside of Mesoamerica during the Preclassic, their speakers living as semi- nomadic hunter-gatherers on the northern rim of the region and co ...