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
Those stars were the Pleiades—in Yucatec, tsab, or the rattle of the snake—and he told her that the cluster’s predawn appearances began as the harvest approached.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022
What I have previously said about the faithfulness with which the Yucatec artist adhered to his prototypes in signs is perfectly true, although apparently partly contradicted by the identification I have just made.
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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