Mayan languages Mayan languages (Akatek) Akatak is a Maya language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Akatek"
Chol is a Maya language used by Chol ethnic group in Mexico especially Chiapas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chol language"
The Chorti language (Chorti) is a language of the Mayan language family. Chorti is a direct descendant of the language used in much of the classic Maya glyphic writing, even some inscriptions which were executed in areas inhabited with peoples speaking Yucatec. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chorti language"
The Classic Maya language is the oldest historically-attested member of the Mayan language family. It is the main language documented in the pre-Columbian inscriptions of the Classic Era Maya civilization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Classic Maya language"
The Huastec, also rendered as Huaxtec and Huastecos, are an indigenous people of Mexico, historically based in the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas concentrated along the route of the Panuco River and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The Huastec are also known (especially by themselves) as the Teenek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Huastec"
The Jacaltec (or Jakalteko or Popti') are a group of Maya Indians living in the Western Guatemala highlands and adjoining part of Chiapas and southern Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacaltec"
The Lacandon people are one of the indigenous Native American Maya peoples, who live mostly in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Their homeland is sometimes known as La Selva Lacandona ("The Lacandon Jungle"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Lacandon"
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The Mam are a Native American people of the highlands of western Guatemala. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mam language"
Mayan languages constitute a language family of related languages which are spoken in Mesoamerica, from southeastern Mexico to northern Central America, and as far south as Honduras. As a group of related languages, their collective origins can be reconstructed over at least some 5000 years of pre-Columbian habitation in the region. Although Spanish is the official language of the region's present-day countries (except for Belize, where it is English), many Mayan languages are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by more than 3 million indigenous Maya. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mayan languages"
The Quiché language (K’iche’ in the native orthography) is a part of the Mayan language family. It is spoken by many Quiché people in the central highlands of Guatemala. With close to a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), it is the second most widely spoken language in the country after Spanish. Most speakers of Quiché also have at least a working knowledge of Spanish except in some isolated rural villages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quiché language"
Tzeltal is a Maya language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico. It is most closely related to Tzotzil. This living language has about 280 thousand speakers in Chiapas, southernmost state in Mexico, though some researchers would argue that parts Tzeltal territory extend as far southeast as Guatemala. About six different dialects of Tzeltal are usually recognized. Tzotzil is the most closely related language to Tzeltal and together they form a Tzeltalan Proper sub-branch of the Mayan language family. Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Chol are the most widely-spoken languages in Chiapas. Unlike Ch'ol, which features split-ergativity, Tzeltal and Tzotzil are fully morphologically ergative. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tzeltal language"
The Tzotzil Maya of the central highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas are a Native American group, the direct descendants of the Classic Maya. Tzotzil, along with Tzeltal and Ch'ol is descended from the proto-Ch'ol spoken in the late classic period at sites such as Palenque and Yaxchilan. Today, the largest Tzotzil municipalities are Chamula and Zinacantan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tzotzil"
Xinca is a Mesoamerican language spoken by an indigenous group of the same name that originates in Guatemala. ...more on Wikipedia about "Xinca"
Yucatec Maya (or Yukatek in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas, now preferred by scholars) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize and parts of Guatemala. To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - Yucatec is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as the Quiché language and the Lacandon language). ...more on Wikipedia about "Yucatec Maya language"
Yucatec Maya Sign Language is used in the Yucatán region in Mexico by both hearing and deaf members of a number of traditional Mayan communities with unusually high numbers of deaf inhabitants. It is a natural complex language, which is not related to Mexican Sign Language, but may have similarities with sign languages found in nearby Guatemala. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yucatec Maya Sign Language"
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