Mayan languages

The Mayan languages are a family of related languages spoken from southeastern Mexico through northern Central America as far south as Honduras. They go back at least some 5000 years in the Pre-Columbian era of Mesoamerica. Although the Spanish language (and in Belize the English language) is the official language of the area today, Mayan languages are still spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 3 million Maya people in the region today. In Classical times (600-800 AD) and as late as the Spanish Conquest, the language was written on buildings, pottery and bark-paper codices in a highly elaborate script now called Maya hieroglyphics.

External links

• Maya - English Dictionary
• Yucatec - English Dictionary
• The Mayan Languages- A Comparative Vocabulary contains more than 40,000 entries for 31 Mayan languages
• English Words and their Classic Maya Equivalents