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	Yucatec Maya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yucatec Maya (or Yukatek in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas, now preferred by scholars) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala.
		The Maya were literate in pre-Columbian times, when the language was written using Maya hieroglyphs.
		Yucatec is an agglutinative language and so because of this many words in Yucatec can end up being very long.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language (352 words)

	Yucatec Maya Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yucatec Maya Sign Language is used in the Yucatán region in Mexico by both hearing and deaf members of a number of traditional Mayan communities with unusually high numbers of deaf inhabitants.
		It is a natural complex language, which is not related to Mexican Sign Language, but may have similarities with sign languages found in nearby Guatemala.
		The spoken language of the community is Yucatec Maya language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yucatec_Maya_Sign_Language (189 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yucatec Maya language
		An ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative) is one that treats the subject of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs.
		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.
		It is documented in the ancient hieroglyphs in Pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites such as Chichen Itza, has a rich literature through the Spanish Colonial era, and remains common as the first language in rural areas in Yucatan today, where in many towns even Yucatecans of Spanish ancestry have a working knowledge of the tongue.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yucatec_Maya_language (863 words)

	Mesoamerica Online
		Chuj, a language with a small number of native speakers, is termed "endangered" by linguists.
		Prominent languages such as English or Spanish, he says, are "more economically effective for their users." Parents are more likely to want their children to speak Spanish instead of a local dialect, for example, because it will help them advance later in life.
		The language plays a special role in the study of hieroglyphics because it is almost directly descended from Classic Maya, the language on the inscriptions.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2005-09/mesoamerica.html (972 words)

	Yucatec Maya Sign Language
		They determined that this sign was, indeed, a language and that a notable feature of the social scene was the Deaf persons' integration with the community on almost all levels, save one.
		As before, these children are not sent to boarding schools to learn Mexican Sign Language and no particular notice is given their condition by local doctors and government workers.
		Further questions about this language and community may be directed to Hubert Smith (husmith@charter.net) or Robert Johnson (robert.e.johnson@gallaudet.edu).
	www.sil.org /mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/04i-LSMayaYucateco.htm (504 words)

	Learn Yucatec Maya at UW! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yucatec Maya - also called Maya t'aan or "Maya speech"-is the most widely spoken Mayan language with around a million speakers in areas such as Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Belize.
		Yucatec is a tonal language that builds nouns and verbs from a relatively small set of basic root words, most of which are relatively simple that are then modified by adding additional syllables to create related sets of words.
		Yucatec language is a gateway to a whole new world, the world of Maya Civilization.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /laisp/new/programs/yucatec.htm (254 words)

	notes for language and culture, 1998
		Language and Culture has been a core area of anthropology because anthropologists have always been expected to learn languages in the areas they work.
		She has done fieldwork in Brazil and the United States and is interested in language and identity, experiences and contributions of native anthropologists, Diaspora studies, as well as race and ethnicity.
		Language is a window into the functioning of the shared consciousness of a culture.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/afburns/L&cnotes.htm (1154 words)

	Native Languages: Links and resources for study
		Prairie Band Potawotomie Language Project -- With support of a grant from Iowa Humanities Commission, University and Reservation-based group is attempting to construct a lexicon, a grammar, and other tools to keep this Algonquian language alive.
		Maya numbers--My table (above) gives their names and glyphs; this Canadian Museum of Civilization page explains a bit more about the base-20 Mayan number system.
		SIL bibliography of Native Language publications -- non-tchnical and technical are on same page, separated by a top of the pag jump anchor.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/language.html (1547 words)

	Mayan art and books on preHispanic archaeology and ancient artifacts of precolumbian Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and ...
		Maya is both a noun and an adjective.
		In the beginning archaeology was a search for buried treasure, tombs, and gold, or in the case of the Maya, for jade and polychrome painted vases.
		Scholars who study art history of the Maya area usually practice what is known as iconography, the study of meaning in art.
	www.maya-art-books.org (2965 words)

	University of Arizona Press - Becoming Maya
		As a result, the history of the region is usually seen in terms of conflict between conquerors and conquered that too often ignores the complexity of interaction between these groups and the complex nature of identity within them.
		In Becoming Maya, he has skillfully interwoven history and ethnography to trace 500 years of Yucatec history, covering colonial politics, the rise of plantations, nineteenth-century caste wars, and modern reforms—always with an eye toward the complexities of ethnic categorization.
		Through this overview, Gabbert reveals that Maya ethnicity is upheld primarily by outsiders who simply assume that an ethnic Maya consciousness has always existed among the Maya-speaking people.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /books/BID1545.htm (418 words)

	Maya language - Gurupedia
		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 largest of Maya language is often called Yucatec Maya by linguists but known simply as Maya to its speakers.
		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.
	www.gurupedia.com /m/ma/maya_language.htm (388 words)

	phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		especially the less-traveled areas, it is essential to become familiar with the culture along with the language in preparation for the visit.
		For instance, travelers should be aware that the urban Mayas, and especially, officials such as policemen prefer to be addressed in Spanish, not in Maya.
		The Maya are an innately polite culture who have no dependence on words to show thoughtfulness.
	mayamayan.homestead.com /phrases.html (184 words)

	Globalization Modules
		I investigated changing sensibilities of self, ethnicity, class, community, and religion (Catholic and Protestant) in a Yucatec Maya community in Mexico as villagers move from subsistence agriculture to participation in the global capitalist economy through international tourism and offshore assembly manufacture.
		The research included long-term ethnographic study using the Yucatec Maya language, intensive analysis of life stories, and archival research on the history of American Protestant missions in Yucatán.
		The primary conclusion is that while an individuated sense of self is evident in life stories, consumption patterns, and Protestant practices, the majority of villagers reject Protestant evangelization and have enthusiastically taken to liberation theology, which provides the moral basis for rejecting the inequalities they perceive in a global division of ethnic classes.
	www.rit.edu /~global/kray-bio.html (285 words)

	Maya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		specifically, Yukatek (Yucatec) Maya language is frequently referred to simply as Maya language
		Maya language (Brazil), an unclassified language of Brazil that may be related to the Panoan languages
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_language (122 words)

	A Brief Introduction to Yucatec Maya
		Yucatec Maya is spoken among the indigenous people of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
		Some interesting aspects of the language are that it has no word for yes, there is no word for please and the way of saying "thank you" literally means "God pays." Also the Maya word for fine or okay sounds almost like malo, the Spanish word for bad.
		Remember that in Yucatec, as far as pronunciation goes, the only difference between some words, such as kaax (a chicken) and k’aax (jungle) is the way you say the glottalized sound.
	www.mostlymaya.com /yucatec_maya_intro_.htm (1107 words)

	William F. Hanks
		My speciality is Yucatec Maya language and culture and all of my fieldwork has been conducted in Maya language.
		The first is the organization and dynamics of routine language use (semantics, pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics and the social foundations of speech practices).
		The latter include a wide range of evangelical texts in Maya, the grammars, dictionaries and other analytic works by missionaries in Yucatan, as well as a substantial corpus of texts authored by native Maya speakers (notarial documents as well as so called 'indigenous genres').
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/anth/hanks.html (626 words)

	The Incredible Origins of the Maya Indians! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maya civilization was truly one of the most sophisticated, exotic and volatile cultures of ancient Mesoamerica.
		Since the Mayas observed certain TOTEMIC beliefs, they were in the habit of putting their clans or families under the protection of some particular animal, one they considered sacred, and so some they called Balam, or jaguar; and others Pech, or dog; others Baz, or monkeys; others Chan, or serpents; etc.
		The Maya were still celebrating their age-old festivals in the same way they had done for centuries; these were strangely like the festivals of the Catholic world, and even fell on almost the same days.
	www.hope-of-israel.org /copan.htm (15027 words)

	University of North Carolina Institute of Latin American Studies Yucatec Maya Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 60-minute video, produced by the Consortium in Yucatec Maya is a great tool for use in anthropology, language and folklore classes as well as for those wishing to know and understand more about the Mayan people.
		Maya Civilization - Past and Present - overview of culture, language and a resource page with over 100 links to Mayan websites.
		Rabbit in the Moon - Mayan culture, archaeology, calendars, architecture and language.
	www.unc.edu /depts/ilas/yucaresources.html (421 words)

	Language Labs and Archives of the University of Chicago
		The texts of the course are obtainable in the form of a microfilm positive.
		Chicago Maya presents the revised audio and text materials of Spoken Quiché (Maya) and Spoken Yucatec Maya in digital format.
		The various applications within the Chicago Maya program permit the users to see the text on the computer screen, hear the corresponding audio, and engage in listen-repeat-compare exercises.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/lla/products.shtml (432 words)

	Mostly Maya
		Mostly Maya is dedicated to understanding the culture and archaeology of the Maya.
		It is also geared to making budget and other travel in the Maya areas and in those ruins in Mesoamerica simpler to arrange.
		There are some worthwhile organizations or individuals who are in some way interested in or are helping the Maya, but which are not online.
	www.mostlymaya.com (607 words)

	The Newest San Franciscans / Recent Mayan immigration is changing the face of the city and forging a link to the Yucatan
		One of the first women from the region to arrive in San Francisco in the early 1960s, she says it was not until she began raising her son in the Mission District that she realized how isolated she felt from her family's traditions.
		Her knowledge of the language comes in handy in her work assisting patients at General Hospital, and when she is called to moonlight as a trilingual court interpreter for immigrants entangled in the city's justice system.
		professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, who began studying the Yucatec Maya language in Oxkutzcab in 1977, the greatest sign of cultural transformation is the upswing in the number of California license plates cruising Oxkutzcab's plaza.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/28/CM62329.DTL&type=printable (3539 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dhivehi -> language spoken in the Maldives and in the Minicoy Island of India Dusun -> language spoken by the Dusun tribe, one of the largest in North Borneo Dutch -> language spoken in the Netherlands and the provinces of East- and West-Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and Flemmish-Brabant, Belgium Esperanto -> The International Language.
		Kpele -> language spoken in Africa Lao -> language spoken in Laos and by the Laotian people living in northern Thailand Luo -> language spoken in Kenya Luxembourgish -> language spoken in Luxembourg and in the border areas in Belgium (Arlon), France (Thionville), and Germany.
		Tugen is a subordinated tribe of the Kalinjin tribe.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/usenet/news.answers/romance-faq/part3 (1232 words)

	Dzitbalche
		The Mayence language family diverged from a common stock over the centuries into the large variety of related languages found throughout the Maya region today, much as the Romance languages diverged from Latin.
		Yucatecan Maya however, forms one of the three major subgroupings, the others being Huastecan and Southern Mayan.
		Yucatec Maya remains understandable throughout the Yucatán peninsula, despite minor local differences.
	www.red-coral.net /Dzit.html (805 words)

	The Maya Language Family
		Maya, which is now distinguished as Yucatec Maya, is only one of many languages in the Mayan language family.
		There are approximately 42 Mayan languages that have been researched by linguists and some 32 are still spoken today.
		Some scholars say that the "glyphs" are all written in a lingua-franca or a heiratic courtly language while some suggest linguistic variation in the glyphs themselves.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/468120 (217 words)

	MayaMayan Home Page
		[The word] Maya is both a noun and an adjective.
		The word Mayan is technically correct only for the language.
		Today, in normal American usage, Mayan is accepted as the adjective, though scholars prefer to keep to the Maya.
	mayamayan.homestead.com (77 words)

	1998 Summer Intensive Introductory Yucatec Maya Course: June 8- July 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The objective is to teach students Yucatec Maya language and literature, the living language spoken by one million people living in the Yucatn peninsula and northern Belize, through eight weeks of intensive language study both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Yucatn.
		The language classes will be taught by Barbara MacLeod, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Miguel A. Gemes Pineda, a Yucatec Maya native and professor at the Universidad Autnoma de Yucatn.
		Students interested in the Yucatec Maya program should contact Sharon Mújica at (919) 962-2414 for a brochure that further explains the details of the program's activities and fees.
	www.duke.edu /web/las/Fall97news/yucatec.html (362 words)

	Introduction to the Mayan Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The astrolo-mythic adventures of Sun and Venus were no doubt tracked closely by the early Maya, and there is some reason to suspect that the tzolkin arose, in part, to structure the related cycles of the two prominent celestial lights (Sun and Venus).
		It was widely used by the Aztecs as well as the Maya, and is still vaguely remembered by the Ixil Maya of Guatemala.
		In addition, the Maya mythologized this sacred link-up in the Popol Vuh and the Dresden Codex.
	edj.net /mc2012/fap4.html (2898 words)

	Amazon.com: Maya-english/english-maya Dictionary And Phrasebook (yucatec): Books: John Montgomery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dictionary Of The Maya Language by Victoria Bricker
		Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya by Simon Martin
		There is also a truly comprehensive linguistic dictionary of Yucatec Maya at ISBN#0874805694, but it can be tough for non-linguists to use.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0781808596?v=glance (639 words)

	Review of Tedlock's Time and the Highland Maya
		The meanings of their calendar religion is built into the language, and does not require an abstract system of beliefs.
		She has stated the methodological dilemmas accurately, and has chosen the ambitious approach of "human intersubjectivity," otherwise known as "participant observation." She follows the advice for writers of fiction: "show, do not tell." What is implied is that the reader at best can only have an intellectual grasp of Tedlock's experience.
		This may explain why the Maya have survived continuing attempts to wipe them from the globe, and reveals what they have to offer us: a more comprehensive view of spacetime (which our modern quantum mechanics has just touched upon) and a greater capacity to love.
	edj.net /mc2012/thmaya.htm (1338 words)

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