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Maya languages
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Maya languages

 or Mayan languages

Family of about 30 American Indian languages and language complexes, spoken by more than three million people, mainly in southern Mexico and Guatemala. While some have few remaining speakers, Yucatec in Mexico and K'iche (Quiché), Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel), Mam, and Q'eqchi' (Kekchí) in Guatemala count speakers in the hundreds of thousands. Maya languages were recorded in an indigenous script (see Maya Codices; Mayan hieroglyphic writing), as well as in colonial documents in a Spanish-based orthography, including the Popol Vuh and the Yucatec prophetic texts known as the Books of Chilam Balam.
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Most upland villagers speak only their native Mayan languages, and see hospitals as "a place to die.
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95 Paperback PM3576 This excellent textbook is designed to teach basic speaking skills in one of the four most common Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, and by immigrants to the U.
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Brown of Northern Illinois University The word for "write" is virtually the same in all but one of 31 modern Mayan languages recorded by linguists, Brown reports in the August-October 1991 CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY.
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