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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 lowland
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 ...
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.
A map showing the distribution and size of the speaker populations. This is the "source code" version of Image:Mayan_Language_Map.png which is preferred to this because the Wikipedia SVG interpreter changes letter sizes. Macedonian version; Date: 5 January 2007 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided.
Changed map based on comments on Talk:Mayan Languages: 23:17, 23 February 2007: 627 × 463 (128 KB) Madman2001: Some fixes based on look of map when uploaded (WYSI NOT WYG) 23:03, 23 February 2007: 627 × 463 (84 KB) Madman2001: A map showing Kaufmann's theory of Mayan Language migration.
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala, and is spoken by 93% of the population. [1] Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language.. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
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 ...
The only indigenous language spoken by more than a million people in Mexico is the Nahuatl language; the other Native American languages with a large population of native speakers (at least 400,000 speakers) include Yucatec Maya, Tzeltal Maya, Tzotzil Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec.