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	Encyclopedia: Lacandon language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The Lacandon people are indigenous Native American Maya people who live mostly in the jungles in Chiapas, Mexico (until 1854 a part of Guatemala).
		Some continue their Pre-Christian beliefs, especially in the north; another part of the Lacandon people, especially in the south, were converted to a South State Baptist sect of Christianity in the late 20th century, especially by a crypto-missionary society calling itself Summer Institute of Linguistics.
		Traditional songs of the Lacandons, a cultural heritage threatened by the missionary activites mentioned above, were recorded in february 1968 by a group of Swedish students of musicology, in collaboration with the Casa Na Bolom in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lacandon-language (330 words)

	Mayan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the Spanish language (and in Belize the English language) is the official language of the area today, Mayan languages are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 3 million Maya people in the region today.
		This language is the language in which the famous Maya mythological document the Popol Wuj was written.
		The Huastec language, spoken in east-central Mexico, is part of the Mayan language family, although it is distant both linguistically and geographically from the rest of the language family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_language (489 words)

	Maya language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Although the Spanish language (and in Belize the English language) is the official language of the area today, dialects of Maya are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 3 million Maya people in the region today.
		The group is sometimes known as the Mayance languages, a coinage that reflects the belief that the current Maya languages bear the same relation to the speech of the classical Maya civilization as the Romance languages have to the speech of the Roman civilisation.
		The Classic Maya language is quite closely related to modern Chol and Yucatec, and the split between these two languages may be observed in Maya inscriptions.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /m/ma/maya_language.html (406 words)

	Vann with Lacandon child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		In January, the Lacandones begin clearing the undergrowth for a new field to be planted in April or May. It is also the time to put in the winter crop of corn.
		Lacandon women plant and harvest secondary crops: squash, beans, tomatoes, root crops, onions and chayotes (a member of the gourd family).
		Sukunkyum, the older brother of Hachäkyum, is the chief lord of the underworld and the judge of souls.
	www.albion.edu /library/specialcollections/VannExhibit_Lacandon.asp (716 words)

	Yucatec Maya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yucatec Maya is a Maya language spoken in the Yucatan Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala.
		To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - Yucatec is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as the Quiché language and the Lacandon language).
		The language itself can be traced back some 5000 years, derived from the Classic Maya language dialect Yucatecan.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language (307 words)

	Teop - DoBeS Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Currently, all but the elder women are bilingual, and although the language of child-rearing is Lacandon, parents see proficiency in Spanish as an advantage and are sending their children to the new state-run primary school.
		Several Lacandones have expressed deep concern that the culture is not being passed on to the children, and have asked for help to preserve it.
		The language is far closer than other Yucatec dialects to the original Classic Maya, simply because the Lacandones were not subject to centuries of political, cultural, religious, and linguistic domination by the Colonial Spaniards and the Mexican State.
	www.mpi.nl /DOBES/WebpageDobes1/DOBES/teams/Lacandon/LacandonTemp.html (326 words)

	lacandon page 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Also since the Lacandon are now exposed to new threats, such as pesticides used on nearby crops, their health is effected and the health of their unborn children.
		Many are embarrassed to speak their language, as well as do not understand their cosmology, which is the basis of their ancient religion (3.).
		They are also buried posol for the long voyage, ocote to light up the darkness, a lock of hair to give to the louse, corn for the hen, a bone for the dog who will help him or her cross the river of tears, and then he or she will enter the underworld.
	www.csulb.edu /~bmendez2/lacandonmayapage8.html (604 words)

	lacandon maya page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Lacandon men, however, are polygynous and all wives live together and share household chores.
		An interesting fact is that the Lacandón language is the closest representation of the dialect spoken by the Classic Maya because of thier unattainable location and lack of influence (5.).
		The majority of the elders speak the Lacandon dialect while younger Lacandon prefer to speak Spanish because they are embarrassed to speak Lacandon.
	www.csulb.edu /~bmendez2/lacandonmayapage6.html (561 words)

	Andrew Maykuth Online \| maykuth.com
		Bruce, 29, an American anthropologist, adopted the Lacandon language, wore Lacandon clothes and, two years ago, married the adolescent daughter of the Lacandon chief.
		While his Lacandon Indian neighbors lived in dirt-floor huts where women baked tortillas over smoky wood fires, Bruce lived in a hacienda built on stilts, where he played adult videos on television and prepared snacks in an electric popcorn popper.
		Robert Bruce, the Lacandon religious expert, explained that the reason all the Lacandon have adopted a false story about his nephew is that the group has the ability to collectively change its mind.
	www.maykuth.com /Archives/mex94.htm (2148 words)

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		It is "sometimes claimed that the Lacandones are the direct descendants of the classical civilizations of Palenque, Yaxchilan and Bonampak.
		While the Lacandon Maya language is distantly related to Cholan Maya- that which is written on the inscriptions in ancient Mayan cities- Lacandon is most closely related to Yucatec Maya, suggesting that the Lacandon once lived farther north on the Yucatec peninsula (Vann).
		The Lacandones that live in Lacanjá Chansayab are culturaly distinct from those that live in the northern villages of Metzabók and Najá.
	feralchylde.tripod.com (640 words)

	Yucatec Maya language Definition / Yucatec Maya language Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Yucatec Maya is a Maya language spoken in the Yucatan PeninsulaThe Yucatán Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico.
		The nation of Honduras is a near neighbour of Belize, 75 km away (47 miles) at the closest point across the Gulf of Honduras to the east.
		To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - Yucatec is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as the Quiché language and the Lacandon languageThe Lacandon people are indigenous Native American Maya people who live mostly in the jungles in Chiapas, Mexico (until 1854 a part of Guatemala).
	www.elresearch.com /Yucatec_Maya_language (314 words)

	Hidalgo the Lacandon
		Probably the man holds a bow and some arrows, for this picture is of a Lacandon Indian, an inhabitant of the Selva Lacandón, or Lacandon Jungle, of the lowlands of northeastern Chiapas.
		Lacandons are considered to be the most "primitive" of all of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
		Present-day Lacandons are descendants of the ancient Maya who a thousand years ago built a great civilization, the hallmarks of which are the pyramids and temples that today can be seen at the ruins of Palenque and Bonampak here in Chiapas, Chichén Itzá and Uxmal in Yucatán, and Tikal and El Mirador in Guatemala.
	www.mexicanmercados.com /yb/36hidalg.htm (874 words)

	Finding the Lost City Epilogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		It is quite near the Lacandon areas in which the Zapatistas live.
		On the way back to town in the bus, there was a fellow in Lacandon garb who had a guitar and began singing Mexican songs.
		Since the young are still learning their native language, it is safe to assume that he was not what he appeared to be.
	www.mostlymaya.com /lost_city_epilogue.html (2979 words)

	Lacandon - Enpsychlopedia
		The Lacandon people are an indigenous Native American Maya people who live mostly in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
		Traditional songs of the Lacandons, a cultural heritage threatened by the missionary activities mentioned above, were recorded in February 1968 by a group of Swedish students of musicology, in collaboration with the Casa Na Bolom in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
		Since the 1970s the government has paid the Lacandons for rights to log timber in their forests, which has resulted in them being ever more integrated into modern society.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/wiki/Lacandon_language (386 words)

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		Because all the interviews had to be conducted in the Lacandon-Maya language the original fieldwork lasted for several years, leading to the Ph.D. of the author in 1998 at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
		One of the consequences is a much lower number of crop species among the young Lacandon farmers.
		All this seems to be partly a function of the recent establishment of a community, by creating a village type center.
	www.psych.northwestern.edu /~ross/ResCondLak.html (567 words)

	HACH WINIK HOME PAGE: A Web site for the Lacandon Maya communities
		It is sometimes claimed that the Lacandons are the direct decendants of the classical civilizations of Palenque, Yaxchilan and Bonampak.
		As late as the 1940's Lacandon culture was still beyond the influence of Christian missionaries.
		Today, in the village of Najá, the elder Lacandons continue to inspire the community with unique mythological stories, dream interpretations, rituals and agricultural principles that are purely Mayan.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/3134 (568 words)

	Barry F. Carlson and Suzanne Cook (University of Victoria), Lacandon Text Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Lacandon is currently spoken by a dwindling population of Mayas.
		As technology advances and the remaining story-tellers grow older and fewer, the state of the Lacandon traditional culture, rich with pre-Columbian verbal art, is in increasing jeopardy.
		Given the imminent extinction of the Lacandon culture in Middle America, work needs to be done to document the oral performances, for the sake of their preservation and for future linguistic analyses.
	www.ling.yale.edu /~elf/Carlson.html (246 words)

	Lacandón Cultural Heritage - Language
		The Lacandón language is far closer than other Yucatec dialects to the original Classic Maya, simply because the Lacandones were not subject to centuries of political, cultural, religious, and linguistic domination by the Colonial Spaniards and the Mexican State.
		Lacandón remains one of the least known of the Middle American languages (Campbell 1979: 928; Andy Hofling, p.c., 2000; Nora England, p.c., 2000).
		Comparative studies of Lacandón and other peninsular Maya languages are provided in Fisher (1973), Romero Castillo (1977), and Tozzer (1978 [1907]).
	web.uvic.ca /lacandon/language.htm (373 words)

	The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper
		Since Lacandons saw Europeans for the first time in the 20th century, it was very hard to initiate the first contact with them.
		Since the Lacandons refuse to speak Spanish, the two ethnologists had to learn their dialect.
		And, though, the Lacandons sleep in hand-made nets hanging from the roof, the one that hangs at the end of the museum's second room is a too luxury piece for resting.
	www.slovakspectator.sk /clanok-4503.html (697 words)

	EZLN : Fourth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Brothers and sisters of other races and languages, of other colors, but with the same heart now protect our light and in it they drink of the same fire.
		But the rebellion which now has a dark face and an indigenous language was not born today.
		The Nation which we construct is one where all communities and languages fit, where all steps may walk, where all may have laughter, where all may live the dawn.
	struggle.ws /mexico/ezln/jung4.html (3442 words)

	World congress on language policies
		My job regarding the language is to do scripts in the Mayo language and also do translations and that way transmit it to the young ones, kids that don't know it, to have interest.
		Our language is fading away because young people and kids don't want to speak it anymore, but it's their parent's fault for not speaking to them in Mayo.
		That language is Spanish, so Spanish is the language of gold and wealth and Lacandons want to speak the language of wealth and future, not the old Lacandón.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/ultima-palabraeng.html (2606 words)

	Spanish Language Schools On Line
		This Spanish language school, whose main campus is located in Heredia with a Sámara Beach campus on the Pacific Ocean, offers a series of 16 courses and four hours of class activity each week day.
		Centro Maya de Idiomas(CMI) is a cooperatively-owned Spanish and Maya language school in the Guatemalan highlands town of Quetzaltenango.
		Instituto de comunicacíon y cultura (A.C.) The Instituto de Comunicación y Cultura, established in 1986, is one of the oldest language schools in Oaxaca, Mexico.
	www.csun.edu /~hcedu013/schoolsonline.html (5702 words)

	etymology.ca - Lacandon language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The Lacandon are among the 4 million people living today who speak the Mayan language.
		...that I'm not a lacandon otherwise I would speak Maya.
		Then I tell them some words in Lacandon and they say: " Yes you are a lacandon" Because...
	etymology.ca /Lacandon-language/reference/search (51 words)

	Fourth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
		This murderous attempt was covered up by the governmental lie of "recuperating national sovereignty." Ignoring Article 39 of the Constitution which it swore to uphold on December 1, 1994, the supreme government reduced the Mexican Federal Army to the role of an army of occupation.
		II Today, with heart of Emiliano Zapata and having heard the voice of all our brothers and sisters, we call upon the people of Mexico to participate in a new stage of the struggle for national liberation and the construction of a new nation, through this.
		FOURTH DECLARATION OF THE LACANDON JUNGLE in which we call upon all honest men and women to participate in the new national political force which is born today: the ZAPATISTA FRONT OF NATIONAL LIBERATION a civil and nonviolent organization, independent and democratic, mexican and national, which struggles for democracy, liberty, and justice in Mexico.
	www.ezln.org /documentos/1996/19960101.en.htm (3168 words)

	December 2003 Feature - Lacandon
		In the 1970s the Lacandon people were granted stewardship of their land by the Mexican government, and received 600,000 hectares of forest.
		This has given the Lacandon people the wealth to afford satellite dishes; however, it is having a detrimental impact on their environment.
		In the last ten years public concern over the disappearance of languages has brought language documentation to the forefront of funding for the Volkswagen Foundation, a German non-profit foundation under private law that spends its funds on the promotion of science.
	oia.uvic.ca /feature/11_2003 (944 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Hach Winik: The Lacandon Maya of Southern Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Their habitat is all but destroyed by lumbering and by the large-scale invasion of other Maya peoples in search of land.
		Topics presented in Hach Winik include the history of Lacandon contact with other peoples, settlement patterns, the life cycle, social control, residence and marriage, the kinship system, and the ritual expression of these social domains.
		A number of oral narratives are also presented and include many words and utterances in the original language with English glosses.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/094204116X/ishopwiz-20 (385 words)

	Ethnologue report for Mexico
		Of those, 291 are living languages and 7 are extinct.
		Speakers of all Totonac languages: 196,003 (1980 census).
		Speakers of all Tzotzil languages: 265,000 (1990 census).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Mexico (6806 words)

	LACANDON MAYA; Robert Bruce: Part V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The language in which one thinks, which is to say, categorizes and gives shape to one's experiences, is of the greatest importance.
		Most of the notes I took during the incense-burner renewal ceremony were in Lacandon Maya, which provides convenient categories and concepts for the experiences I found myself living.
		In order to preserve nonoccidental cultures such as that of the Lacandones, we have to take special pains to preserve the language in which they evolved.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/3134/last5.html (413 words)

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