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Many indigenous #Mexican languages use the so-called “numeral classifiers” - similar to those existing in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese - which convey the form, position or nature of the counted object. The chart below shows some of the (still) used numeral classifiers in #Yucatec #MayaLanguage, although many of them are often replaced by two general markers: “túul” for animate nouns and “p’éel” for inanimate objects.

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The Huave (Mero Ikoot or Mero Ikooc) are an indigenous ethnic group who lives in three coastal districts in the State of #oaxaca , #Mexico . They speak 4 variants of an isolated language (Ombeayiüts), characterized by its high degree of palatalization and lack of glottal stops. It has been argued that the Huave might have migrated to Oaxaca from Nicaragua, although there is no evidence about this, apart from an anecdote written in 1674.

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The Huave (Mero Ikoot or Mero Ikooc) are an indigenous ethnic group living in three coastal districts in the State of #oaxaca , #Mexico . They speak 4 variants of an isolated language (Ombeayiüts), characterized by its high degree of palatalization and lack of glottal stops. It has been argued that the Huave might have migrated to Oaxaca from Nicaragua, although there is no evidence about this, apart from an anecdote written in 1674.

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Many #Mexican languages are #tonal (particularly the #Otomanguean #languages of the State of #Oaxaca and Central #Mexico). Out of 32 different #Maya languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being #Yucatec Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the #Yucatan  Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:

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Many #Mexican languages are #tonal (particularly the #Otomanguean #languages of the State of #Oaxaca and Central #Mexico). Out of 32 different #Maya languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being #Yucatec Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the #Yucatan  Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:

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Comparison of #numbers between #Yucatec #Maya (Maaya t'aan) and #Huastec (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South #Mexico, #YucatanPeninsula, #Guatemala, #Belize & #Honduras). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related #languages.

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Comparison of #numbers between #Yucatec #Maya (Maaya t'aan) and #Huastec (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South #Mexico, #YucatanPeninsula, #Guatemala, #Belize & #Honduras). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related #languages.

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