Yucatec
Americannoun
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a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán, Mexico.
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Also called Yucatec Mayan. the Mayan language of these people.
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a native or inhabitant of Yucatán, Mexico.
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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
She befriended local archaeologists, Indigenous knowledge holders like the Zunil daykeepers, Mesoamerican academics—and Êvila Vera, whom she met at an astronomy presentation to a Yucatec community in the San Francisco Bay Area.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022
I therefore determined to apply the ordinary principles of deciphering, without any bias, to the Yucatec inscriptions, and to go as far as I could certainly.
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 Holden, Edward Singleton
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