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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.

Less than 1,000 members of the #Lacandon people live in the jungles of the State of #Chiapas, #Mexico where they remained practically isolated until well advanced the 20th century. Their language (jach t’aan – the “real speech”) is similar to that of the #Yucatec #Maya, their closest relatives within the #Mayan group. Many of them still worship gods such as “Hachakyum” - a solar deity - and consider the archaeological sites of Palenque and Bonampak as the sacred sites of their ancestors.

Today #January6 marks the 481th anniversary of the foundation of my hometown in #Mexico.

#Mérida, #Yucatán was founded on top of an ancient #Mayan city called T'ho. It is the capital of a State and a region with a very distinctive culture within Mexico, with its own language (#Yucatec #Maya), history, food, traditions and musical style, apart from a strong accent in Spanish. It's a tropical (a very hot!) beauty in the middle of the Maya world.

In k'áatech, Jo'!

#MeridaFest #Yucatan

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1 to 10 in #Yucatec #Maya (the language spoken by the #Talocans in #Marvel 's "Wakanda Forever" film) and K'iche' (the most spoken of the Mayan #languages of #Guatemala ). Yucatec is the mother tongue of 800,000 people in #Yucatan, #Mexico , whilst there are currently more than 1 Million speakers of #K'iche' .

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0 to 10 in #Yucatec #Maya (the language spoken by the #Talocans in #Marvel 's "Wakanda Forever" film) and K'iche' (the most spoken of the Mayan #languages of #Guatemala ). Yucatec is the mother tongue of 800,000 people in #Yucatan, #Mexico , whilst there are currently more than 1 Million speakers of K'iche' .

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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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