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Topic: Mayan language

	Mayan Family
		The Mayan language family comprises five sub-families and includes many languages that are spoken in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
		In Chiapas, all the languages are Mayan (except Zoque), as are virtually all the indigenous languages of Guatemala.
		The languages of this subfamily straddle the border between Chiapas and Guatemala.
	www.sil.org /mexico/maya/00i-maya.htm (1263 words)

	Mayan Language Translator
		Mayan scribes used a combination of symbols representing entire words as well as symbols representing the sounds of syllables.
		Mayan writing consists of a grid of glyph blocks.
		Mayan carvings (like modern stone carvings on buildings) use a more restricted language and discuss a more restricted set of topics than books do.
	mayan.e-shino.com /Mayan_cust_job.shtml (740 words)

	SILEWP 1996-001
		Showalter 1991) they were rejected because of the strong possibility that the results would not truly represent the actual language use patterns of the communities and for reasons of cultural appropriateness and sensitivity to a region traumatized by years of civil unrest in which the motivation for such questions could be easily misinterpreted.
		Language use patterns evidenced in these categories it would be hoped could provide a window on the future of language use in each community.
		The strong point of the methodology is that it relates language behavior from the sociological perspective of "who speaks what to whom and where" to the social psychological perspective of Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory with its analysis of societal pressures which affect individuals and groups in their choice of language variety.
	www.sil.org /silewp/1996/001/SILEWP1996-001.html (4151 words)

	Mayan Language Family
		The Mayan language family is a group of 69 related languages spoken today by over 6 million people in Central America.
		Maya languages are ergative, i.e, the subject of a transitive verb has one form (called the ergative case), while the subject of an intransitive verb has a different form -- the same form as the object of a transitive verb (the absolutive case).
		Today, all Mayan languages are written with adapted versions of the Roman alphabet that still reflect the spelling patterns of Spanish, although there are efforts to revise the orthographies so that they more closely represent the sounds of the Mayan languages.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/November2005/mayan.html (1019 words)

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		Mayan languages employ a contrast between plain and glottalized consonants, lacking a series of voiced stops.
		The languages usually have multiple types of passive and antipassive constructions which combine with syntactic movement to focus on the subject or object of a clause.
		A further goal of the project is to establish a comparative acquisition base for the Mayan languages to facilitate comparison between processes of historical change and language acquisition.
	www.ku.edu /~pyersqr/Mayanlgs.htm (1022 words)

	Quia - Class Page - Mayan Language Module
		Language influences the way we perceive and remember and, generally, it predisposes us to look at the world in a certain way.
		To better accommodate their trading, it is believed that the Mayans dug a narrow channel, less than a mile long and no wider than a few feet, at the northern most tip of the Caye.
		The Mayan language was spoken in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
	www.quia.com /pages/maya.html (1279 words)

	Cognate Mayan and Malinke-Bambara Terms
		Mayans borrowed much of their art and architecture from the Olmecs, including the pyramid structures that the Mayans are so famous for.
		The Mayan languages are spoken in an area from Yucatan and E Chiapas in Mexico, into much of Guatemala and Belize, and W Honduras.
		The Quiche language is a member of the Mayan family, spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/8919/yquiche.htm (3567 words)

	Language Log: Making Yucatec Maya "cool again"
		Mayan languages this might refer to, but now the situation has been clarified — sort of — by Gibson himself.
		But that doesn't stop journalists from calling it an "obscure Mayan dialect" (as in a photo caption for the AP article as well as a July Variety article), though it is neither particularly obscure nor a dialect.
		The Yucatecan languages (Yucatec, Itza, Lacandon) are part of a northern branch that split off about 3000 years ago from the lines that formed the southern Mayan languages.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002631.html (1330 words)

	Genetic Linguistic Relationships of Proto-Mayan or Where did Nab’ee Maya’ Tziij come from?
		It is accepted that the Mayan languages have participated extensively in the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area.
		Unknown to many is the fact that many of the Mayan languages have linguistic documents that date as far back as several of the European languages.
		Philological studies in hieroglyphics and Mayan languages identify Cholan as the principle language of the older glyphic texts (Campbell 1990).
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/proto-maya.html (1980 words)

	Mayan World: the people, cosmology and religion, the language.
		This is probably due to the vast separation in the districts settled by the Maya and the collapse of the trade networks of the ancient empire.
		The result in terms of language was the development of new dialects in isolation and this is easily seen in the evolution of the Maya.
		In a effort to reconstruct the family tree of the Mayan language a considerable amount of confusion and difference of opinion has emerged.
	www.mayan-world.com /cosmos-m.htm (3681 words)

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		The Mayans also wore very little clothing and considered it as not a big importance as far as their appearance went.
		Many Mayan tools (including weaponry) were made from bone, parts of animals, soil, stone, metal/copper, and wood, all of which were usually used to create most of the Mayan tools.
		Most of the Mayans surrounding environment consisted of tropical (or somewhat tropical) rain forest which was one of their main sources of resources (food, clothing, weapons, tools, etc.).
	www.mayanet.hn /COPAN/English/Culture/culture.htm (1805 words)

	About Mayan Languages
		This language may have begun in the mountains of northwest Guatemala and, as time went on, diverged into dialects and finally separate languages.
		In addition to the complexity of so many Mayan languages, there is another factor which must be dealt with in learning about the languages, that of different spelling conventions.
		In all languages, in addition to grammar, there is a characteristic word order in sentence construction illustrated simply here by the relation of the Subject, Verb, and Object.
	mayamayan.homestead.com /about.html (459 words)

	2001-2002 News Releases
		He reproduced for them copies of their history written in their own language and gave it to a number of the elders he'd interviewed and also to teachers to use in schools.
		The Mayans were overwhelmed by this gift and told Carey that no other researchers had shared research about them with their community before.
		There are 21 Mayan languages, Carey says, as well as Spanish, the official language, and the creole languages Garifuna and Xinka, but Kaqchikel is one of the most widely spoken Mayan languages.
	www.usm.maine.edu /mcr/news/0102releases/mayan.htm (495 words)

	Mayanwebliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		This is from the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
		This is the syllabus for a course in Mayan Languages taught at the University of Texas.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/Mayanwebliography.html (784 words)

	Celas Maya Spanish School - Quiché / K'iche´ / K´iché Language Study - Study Spanish Abroad ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Protomayan is the language that was spoken by the first inhabitants of what is today Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatán peninsula.
		In spite of the marginalization that the Mayan languages have suffered, principally by the Guatemalan, Honduran, and Mexican states, there have been strong efforts by many to learn, understand, and preserve the language.
		More important, by helping Mayan students recover their mother tongue, we enable them to close the gap between knowledge and language -- to communicate with Mayans who do not speak Spanish and who are therefore excluded from the the current legal and political systems.
	www.celasmaya.edu.gt /en_language_quiche.html (603 words)

	Mayan World: the people, Quintana roo, Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatan, Mexico
		Mayan always refers to the language group of the Maya people.
		In villages all over mesoamerica the Mayan language and numbering system is still used.
		They are mostly written in archaic Yucatecan, one of the 31 Mayan languages.
	www.mayan-world.com /people-m.htm (3470 words)

	Mayan Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics, 1978, Lyle Campell et al., (eds.).
		The Mayan language family comprises five sub-families and includes many languages that are spoken...
		In Mexico, Mayan languages are spoken in seven states: Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatán...
	www.languagepilot.com /studyabroad/mayan-language.html (234 words)

	Books available from Labyrinthos:
		Of the various Mayan languages the Mayan language of Yucatan, often referred to as Yucatec Mayan, is the largest of the various Mayan languages.
		In fact, the people of Yucatan are the only people of this linguistic group which refer to themselves as “Maya”, and refer to their language as “Maya Than” (Mayan Language).
		Included in the grammar is an extensive anthology of Mayan literature, starting with a hieroglyphic text and concluding with material collected in the 1980’s.
	www.mycstar.org /db/books.htm (579 words)

	Mayan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mayan languages, it has become conventional to use the form Mayan when referring to the languages, or an aspect of the language.
		) constitute a family of related languages spoken in Mesoamerica from southeastern Mexico to northern Central America and as far south as Honduras.
		Anabel Ford on the history of misunderstanding Mayan language and culture
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayan_languages (2241 words)

	Mayan hieroglyphic script and languages
		The earliest known writing in the Mayan script dates from about 250 BC, but the script is thought to have developed at an earlier date.
		The first major breakthrough in decipherment came during the 1950s when a Russian ethnologist, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov, proposed that the Mayan script was at least partly phonetic and represented the Yucatec Mayan language.
		The Mayan script is logosyllabic combining about 550 logograms (which represent whole words) and 150 syllabograms (which represent syllables).
	www.omniglot.com /writing/mayan.htm (718 words)

	KU News - KU linguist documents dying Mayan language with ,000 federal grant
		The language is at least 1,000 years older than English, but it is dying along with an estimated 3,500 other human languages.
		To begin efforts to document those languages, Clifton Pye, professor of linguistics at the University of Kansas, has received a $314,999 grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		The Documenting Endangered Languages project will allow Pye to use video and sound technology to record Chol and two other languages spoken by children in Mayan communities in Guatemala: Mam, in San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan, and Q’anjob’al, in Santa Eulalia.
	www.news.ku.edu /2006/august/21/mayan.shtml (374 words)

	Mayan Research Page by History Link 101
		Mayan Calendar Converter Type in a date and get the Mayan Equivalent.
		Mayan Language Chart Chart showing the development of Mayan language.
		Mayan Inscriptions Click on the tablet and the columns are interpreted.
	www.historylink101.com /1/mayan/mayan_research.htm (210 words)

	Mayan art and books on preHispanic archaeology and ancient artifacts of precolumbian Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and ...
		Too make it all the more confusing, one of the Mayan languages is "Yucatec Maya." Today, in normal American usage, Mayan is accepted as the adjective, though scholars prefer to keep to the word Maya.
		Linguistics is the field of study of language, linguists are the specialists who do this.
		Most Mayan hieroglyphic inscriptions are on stelae (stela, or stelas, spelled variously), on altars, lintels, and other monumental stone sculpture.
	www.maya-art-books.org (2919 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Mayan
		You have reached the page on Mayan Languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Prior to the coming of the Europeans, Mayan civilization had reached a high level, complete with a complicated hieroglyphic writing system which only today is beginning to be interpreted.
		The Popul Vuh was the sacred book of the Mayans, and was originally written in Mayan hieroglyphics; it was transliterated into the Latin alphabet in the 16th century.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/mayanlh.htm (1431 words)

	languagehat.com: MORE ON MAYAN.
		Since this is a Mayan topic, I'd like to ask if anyone can provide me pointers or information on the orthography of Tz'utujil, one of the languages of the Lago de Atitlán area in Guatemala, which I learned a few words of in my week there.
		Why I'm using Spanish and not another language is because the students speak Spanish and so do I. I use their native language when I need to clarify a point or provide instruction in a particularly taxing concept and the students' English is not up to the task of comprehending it.
		Yet they were so unaware that speaking their indigenous languages was a thing to be proud of, not ashamed.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/002294.php (1715 words)

	Language Log: Mel's Mayan mischief
		Yucatec Maya, the indigenous language of the Yucatán Peninsula.
		Wayne's World.) Then the line of Mayan men speak in unison, with a subtitle reading "Not us!" The bit ends with the head of a fl panther popping inexplicably into the screen and Mel and his cast members running away screaming.
		But from what I can tell, Gibson is fully playing into the media's exoticization of the language — and Mayan cultures in general — for his own purposes, whatever they may be.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002902.html (801 words)

	Maya Indian - Language.htm
		The Mayan Indian Language is one of the most fascinating to behold in written form.
		It is due to this sophisticated method of storytelling that we are better able to understand Mayan Indian life from the exploits of great warriors to festive and religious rituals.
		From representations of animals and the elements to actions and titles, Mayan glyphs were divided into several categories.
	www.mayaindian.com /greene/maya_language.htm (145 words)

	Linguist Helping Guatemalan Women Save Mayan Language
		“It is a sad truth that the endangerment of a language often implies the endangerment of a population,” states Jule Gomez de Garcia, an assistant
		According the Gomez de Garcia, approximately 50,000 speakers of Ixil remain, many of whom are female survivors of genocidal attacks targeted at indigenous populations during the country’s civil war in the 1980s.
		The Multimedia Database of Ixil Mayan Narratives project is part of a larger program funded by NSF and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
	www.csusm.edu /newsmedia/releases/04-05/IxilNSF.htm (516 words)

	Ethnicity:Hill, Juhl, and Zori
		The Mayan language is more prevalent, you see more of what is considered the traditional clothing, and more people are practicing general traditional behavioral traits.
		We also discussed the Mayan language and its use with both the woman in Coba and the children in Ticul.
		A few of the students in the group that I spoke with in Ticul said that some of their mothers and almost all of their grandmothers spoke Mayan and in some homes, it was the language that was used.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/afburns/merida/yuc/ethnicity.htm (1247 words)

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