Approximate pre-contact distribution of native language families with presence in Mesoamerica (and elsewhere).
The Mesoamerican language area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is defined by an array of syntactic, lexical and phonological traits as well as a number of ethnolinguistic traits found in the languages of Mesoamerica, which belong to a number of language families, such as Uto-Aztecan, Mayan, Totonacan, Oto-Manguean and Mixe–Zoque languages as well as some language isolates and unclassified languages known to the region.
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The Mesoamericanlanguagearea is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is...
Mesoamericanlanguages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...
Mamean and Chʼolan–Tzeltalan branches. Mayan languages form part of the Mesoamericanlanguagearea, an area of linguistic convergence developed throughout...
speak their ancestral languages and maintain many practices hearkening back to their Mesoamerican roots. Ancient Mesoamerican sites in El Salvador Holy...
documented, among them, the Balkan languagearea, the Mesoamericanlanguagearea, and the Ethiopian languagearea. Also, larger areas such as South Asia, Europe...
have received Mesoamerican influences, which is reflected by the fact that Wixarika has features typical to the Mesoamericanlanguagearea. Their spirituality...
other indigenous Mesoamericanlanguages, they have absorbed many influences, coming to form part of the Mesoamericanlanguagearea. Many words from Nahuatl...
Wikimedia Incubator Aztec codices List of extinct languages of North America Mesoamericanlanguagearea "Ethnologue summary for Classical Nahuatl". Archived...
the languages of the area. These surviving texts give anthropologists and historians valuable insight into the origins of Mesoamericanlanguages, culture...
name. As a result, the word for “day” also means “name” in some Mesoamericanlanguages. Each day sign was presided over by a god and many had associations...
artworks The Olmecs (/ˈɒlmɛks, ˈoʊl-/) were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization. Following a progressive development in Soconusco, they...
as well. Corachol languages are Mesoamericanlanguages, and display many of the traits defined by the Mesoamerican linguistic area, or sprachbund. v t...
which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it is recognised as an official language of Mexico, though...
Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE);...
the United States. Cora is a Mesoamericanlanguage and shows many of the traits defining the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area[citation needed]. Under the General...
is a Mesoamericanlanguage and has many of the traits of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. In 2003, along with some 62 other indigenous languages, it was...
Ancient Mesoamericans were the first people to invent rubber balls (Nahuatl languages: ōllamaloni), sometime before 1600 BCE, and used them in a variety...
Mazandarani languages with South Caucasian languages several linguistic areas of the Americas, including: Mesoamerican linguistic area Pueblo linguistic area[citation...
to the Mesoamerican civilizations of the Aztec and Maya, and by language to the Mesoamericanlanguagearea. The Chorotegas were Mangue language ethnic...
A Mesoamerican ballcourt (Nahuatl languages: tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the...
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