Langenesis

Mayan family

Classic Maya

c. 300 BCE – 900 CE Classical

Classic Maya (c. 300 BCE – 900 CE) is a classical Mayan language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Mayan → Classic Maya.

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Language of the Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions, from the Late Preclassic to the Classic period. Houston, Robertson and Stuart identify it as Classic Ch'olti'an, ancestral to Ch'olti' and Ch'orti'. It stayed in use as a prestige written language across Maya city-states.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Mayanc. 2,200 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Classic Mayac. 300 BCE – 900 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 8

Also descended from Proto-Mayan.

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