Langenesis

Mayan family

Yucatec Maya

1500 CE – today Living

Yucatec Maya (1500 CE – today) is a living Mayan language. Lineage: Proto-Mayan → Yucatec Maya.

See Yucatec Maya on the interactive map
Speakers
800K (800,000)
ISO 639-3
yua
Glottocode
yuca1254

Yucatecan branch, spoken on the Yucatán Peninsula. Colonial Yucatec is well documented (Books of Chilam Balam), but that stage is not tracked separately here.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Mayanc. 2,200 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Yucatec Maya1500 CE – today

Sister languages 8

Also descended from Proto-Mayan.

Sources