Yucatec

American  

[yoo-kuh-tek] / ˈju kəˌtɛk /

noun

• Yucatecs,
  plural
• Yucatec
  plural

1. a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán, Mexico.

2. Also called Yucatec Mayan.  the Mayan language of these people.

3. a native or inhabitant of Yucatán, Mexico.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Yucatecan
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Yucatec
  plural
• Yucatecs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Yucatec Yucatecs

The team of archaeologists who discovered the ruins named them Ocomtún, using the Yucatec Maya word for the stone columns found around the ancient city.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Filmmakers hired Maya Mexican actor Josué Maychi to play a shaman and teach cast members his Yucatec Mayan language.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

“He was working in two languages that are not his first, English and in Yucatec Maya, while performing with prosthetics 15 feet underwater,” Coogler said via voice note.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

What her grandmother emphasized most by the train tracks, Ávila Vera says, first in Spanish and then in Yucatec, was the need to keep passing knowledge down to her own children.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022

On the other hand, the divine title of Quetzal-coatl was carried by the culture-hero whose personality has been discussed and who was a Yucatec ruler and high priest.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

Again, we must remember that this was no source of ambiguity to the Yucatecs, however much it may be to us.

From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Edward Singleton Holden