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Yucatec Maya
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yucateco, Yukatek Maya, Maya language, Yucatec, Yucatec Maya language, Maaya, Yucatec Mayan
Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [màːjaʔˈtʼàːn]
- Native to
- Mexico , Belize
- Region
- Yucatán , Quintana Roo , Campeche
- Ethnicity
- Yucatec Mayas
- Native speakers
- 800,000 including 775,000 in Mexico (2020 census)
- Language family
- Mayan Core Mayan Yucatecan Yucatec– Lacandon Yucatec Maya
- Official language in
- Mexico
- Regulated by
- INALI
- Iso 639 3
- yua
- Glottolog
- yuca1254
- Elp
- Yucatec
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
A Yucatec Maya speaker singing with a guitar. Yucatec Maya (/ˈjuːkətɛk ˈmaɪə/ YOO-kə-tek MY-ə; Spanish: yucateco [ʝukaˈteko]), referred to by its speakers as mayaʼ or maayaʼ t’aan ( pronounced [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.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yucatec Maya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.