800,000 including 775,000 in Mexico (2020 census)[1]
Language family
Mayan
Yucatecan
Yucatec–Lacandon
Yucatec Maya
Official status
Official language in
Mexico[2]
Regulated by
INALI
Language codes
ISO 639-3
yua
Glottolog
yuca1254
ELP
Yucatec
Location of Yucatec Mayan speaking areas on the Yucatan Peninsula
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A Yucatec Maya speaker singing with a guitar.
Yucatec Maya (/ˈjuːkətɛkˈmaɪə/; referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as maaya t’aan[màːjaʔˈtʼàːn]) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Francisco, though most Maya Americans are speakers of other Mayan languages from Guatemala and Chiapas.[3]
^Yucatec Maya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"Ley General de Derechos Lingüisticos Indígenas". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007.
^Ancient Mayan languages are creating problems for today's immigration courts – LA Times
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YucatecMaya (/ˈjuːkətɛk ˈmaɪə/; referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as maaya t’aan [màːjaʔˈtʼàːn]) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán...
small pockets in Guatemala. YucatecMaya (known simply as "Maya" to its speakers) is the most commonly spoken Mayan language in Mexico. It is currently...
Language. [citation needed] The oral language of the community is the YucatecMayalanguage. In the highlands of Guatemala, Maya use a sign language that...
were Maya. Additionally, all dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting, and the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan language is...
spelled Chichen Itza in English and traditional YucatecMaya) was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archeological...
YucatecMaya; that term refers only to the language, and the correct name for the people is simply Maya (not Mayans). (Yucatec) Maya is one language in...
ɓahlam]) are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving...
Tulum (Spanish pronunciation: [tuˈlun], YucatecMaya: Tulu'um) is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba,...
Cozumel (Spanish pronunciation: [kosuˈmel]; YucatecMaya: Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's...
Luxton, Richard N. (1996). The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the YucatecMaya, 1539–1638. Walnut Creek, CA: Agaean Park Press. ISBN 978-0-89412-244-6...
now disproven[original research?] theory is that it derives from the YucatecMaya word xook (pronounced [ʃoːk]), meaning 'shark'. Evidence for this etymology...
than 1.7 million, followed by YucatecMaya used daily by nearly 850,000 people. Tzeltal and Tzotzil, two other Mayan languages, are spoken by around half...
the source, most names are either Yucatec or Kʼicheʼ. The Classic Period names (belonging to the Classic Mayalanguage) are only rarely known with certainty...
archaeologist Frans Blom, who adapted it from the YucatecMaya word pokolpok. In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, it was called ōllamaliztli ([oːlːamaˈlistɬi])...
is the plural form of way (or uay), a Maya word with a basic meaning of 'sleep(ing)', but which in YucatecMaya is a term specifically denoting the Mesoamerican...
origins among the Maya of the Classic Period. Little is known of the mythology of this Pre-Columbian era deity. In the YucatecMayalanguage, the name is spelt...
geographic center of the crater. The name Chicxulub is from the YucatecMayalanguage meaning 'the devil's flea'. "Population and Housing Census 2010"...
Central America Mayan languages, language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America YucatecMayalanguage, language spoken in the Yucatán...
by people of the YucatecMaya ethnicity. The celebration is known as Hanal Pixan which means 'food for the souls' in their language. Altars are constructed...
[pa'leŋke]; YucatecMaya: Bàakʼ [ɓaːkʼ]), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamhaʼ ("Big Water or Big Waters"), was a Maya city state in...
The Tren Maya (sometimes also Mayan Train or Maya Train) is a 1,554-kilometre (966 mi) intercity railway in Mexico that traverses the Yucatán Peninsula...
stunts. He learned the YucatecMayalanguage in order to appear as a tribesman in the film, in which all dialogue was in Maya. For his work in the film...
over the entire Maya-speaking area, but also that texts were written in other Mayan languages of the Petén and Yucatán, especially Yucatec. There is also...
given to the plant in indigenous Mesoamerican languages such as kakaw in Tzeltal, Kʼicheʼ and Classic Maya; kagaw in Sayula Popoluca; and cacahuatl in Nahuatl...
in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet. The YucatecMayalanguage used Ɔ to transcribe the alveolar ejective...
OCLC 26611093. (in Spanish and YucatecMaya) Bolles, David (1997). "Combined Dictionary–Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language" (revised 2003). Foundation...
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