Glottothèque: Mayan languages (electronic resource)
Mayan languages are part of a language family spoken in Mesoamerica. Currently, the 34 languages listed in glottolog 4.8 as members of the Mayan language family, are spoken in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The language of the Classical Mayan inscriptions is a descendent of the Proto-language of the...
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Berlin, Göttingen, Mexico City
Humboldt University of Berlin University of Göttingen El Colegio de México
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Mayan languages are part of a language family spoken in Mesoamerica. Currently, the 34 languages listed in glottolog 4.8 as members of the Mayan language family, are spoken in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The language of the Classical Mayan inscriptions is a descendent of the Proto-language of the contemporary Mayan languages. The situation of these languages varies: some languages, such as Yucatec Maya, are spoken by a large population and are represented in education and the mass media, while others are severely threatened. Although many languages of this family are still under-studied and under-documented, the Mayan family at large is overall well represented in current linguistic research, with reference grammars and dictionaries, numerous PhD's and research articles dedicated to particular grammatical phenomena, such as possessive constructions, classifier systems, optionality of plurals, pluractionality, absence of tense morphology, ergativity, spatial expressions, omnipredicativity, word order typology (with emphasis on V-initial word order), discourse functions of left peripheral positions, etc. |
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