Mayan languages
language family spoken in Mesoamerica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mayan languages are a language family spoken in Central America and Mesoamerica.[1]
They are spoken by at least 6 million native Maya, mostly in Guatemala, Mexico, or Belize. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name,[2] and Mexico recognized eight others.
The Mayan languages are some of the best documented and most studied languages in the Americas.[3] Those spoken today come from Proto-Mayan, a language that was probably spoken at least 5000 years ago and has been partly reconstructed.
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