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Javier Basulto<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention">@<span>languagelovers</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MexicanLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MexicanLanguages</span></a></p><p>Many indigenous <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexican</span></a> languages use the so-called “numeral classifiers” - similar to those existing in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese - which convey the form, position or nature of the counted object. The chart below shows some of the (still) used numeral classifiers in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yucatec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yucatec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MayaLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MayaLanguage</span></a>, although many of them are often replaced by two general markers: “túul” for animate nouns and “p’éel” for inanimate objects.</p>
Javier Basulto<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indigenouslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>indigenouslanguage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>languages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexicanlanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexicanlanguages</span></a> </p><p>The Huave (Mero Ikoot or Mero Ikooc) are an indigenous ethnic group living in three coastal districts in the State of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oaxaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>oaxaca</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexico</span></a> . They speak 4 variants of an isolated language (Ombeayiüts), characterized by its high degree of palatalization and lack of glottal stops. It has been argued that the Huave might have migrated to Oaxaca from Nicaragua, although there is no evidence about this, apart from an anecdote written in 1674.</p><p> </p>
Javier Basulto<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexicanlanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexicanlanguages</span></a> </p><p>Many <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexican</span></a> languages are <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tonal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tonal</span></a> (particularly the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Otomanguean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Otomanguean</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>languages</span></a> of the State of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oaxaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oaxaca</span></a> and Central <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexico</span></a>). Out of 32 different <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Maya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maya</span></a> languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yucatec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yucatec</span></a> Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yucatan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yucatan</span></a>  Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:</p>
Javier Basulto<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention">@<span>languagelovers</span></a></span> </p><p>Comparison of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>numbers</span></a> between <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yucatec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yucatec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Maya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maya</span></a> (Maaya t&#39;aan) and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Huastec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Huastec</span></a> (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/YucatanPeninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YucatanPeninsula</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Guatemala</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Belize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Belize</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Honduras</span></a>). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>languages</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/idiomamaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>idiomamaya</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indigenouslanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>indigenouslanguages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexicanlanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mexicanlanguages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/huasteco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huasteco</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mayayucateco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mayayucateco</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>