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Preferred term

yuaYucateco  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Yucatec Maya (Yukatek Maya in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala), called Màaya tàan (lit. "Maya speech") by its speakers, is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - "Yucatec" is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as Kiche and Itza Maya).

Entry terms

  • Maya, Yucatec
  • Yucatec language
  • Yucatec Maya
  • Yucatec Maya language

ISO 639-3 code

  • yua

Notation

  • yua

In other languages

  • Maya yucatèque

    French

  • Mayathan

    German

  • Lingua maya yucateca

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma maya

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yua

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