Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Mayan people inhabiting the Yucatán Peninsula.
- noun The Mayan language of the Yucatec.
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- proper noun A member of a
Mayan people inhabiting theYucatán peninsula - proper noun Their
language
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- noun a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico
- noun a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec
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Examples
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While Acalán was primarily occupied by the Chontal Indians, the other three states were Yucatec Mayan nations.
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For thousands of years, the Yucatec Maya has been the dominant Mayan language throughout the Yucatán Peninsula, including Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo.
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A total of 199,073 Maya speakers lived in that state, representing 87.36% of all the Yucatec Maya speakers in the country.
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The Chontal of Tabasco speak one of the 69 Mayan languages and have a close relation to the Yucatec Maya and Chol on the east and the Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Kanjobal, and Chuj of Chiapas on the west.
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Northeast of Acalán-Tixchel, along the present-day central coastline of Campeche, was the Yucatec Maya Province of Chanputún (Champotón), which ran from present-day Champotón northward to Tichac (Sihochac) and extended some distance inland.
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Apparently named for its principal town (now known as Champotón), Chanputún represented the southwestern extension of the Yucatec Maya cultural region.
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The Maya Linguistic Group is one of the largest in the Americas and is divided into approximately 69 languages, including the Huastec, Yucatec, Western Maya, and Eastern Maya groups.
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In the year 2000, speakers of Yucatec Maya continued to represent the dominant language in the entire Yucatán Peninsula, with 547,098 (68.7%) in Yucatán, 163,477 (20.5%) in Quintana Roo, and 75,874 (9.5%) in Campeche.
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In Mexico's 1910 census, 227,883 persons were classified as speakers of the Yucatec Maya language, representing 11.62% of the 1,960,306 indigenous-speaking population in the entire country.
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Living in the regions east of Acalán-Tixchel were a Yucatec Maya people who were known as the Cehache or Mazateca, inhabiting the border region between what is now Campeche and the Petén District of Guatemala.
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