The use of "Mayab" as the name of the language seems to be unique to the town of Hocabá, as indicated by the Hocabá dictionary and is not employed elsewhere in the region or in Mexico, by either Spanish or Maya speakers. A popular, yet false, alternative etymology of Mayab is "ma ya'ab" or "not many," "the few" which derives from New Age spiritualist interpretations of the Maya. Etymology Īccording to the Hocabá dictionary, compiled by American anthropologist Victoria Bricker, there is a variant name mayab tʼàan, literally "flat speech" ). There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Francisco, though most Mayan Americans are speakers of other Mayan languages from Guatemala and Chiapas. Yucatec Maya ( / ˈ j uː k ə t ɛ k ˈ m aɪ ə/ referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as màaya t’àan ) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Ī Yucatec Maya speaker singing with a guitar.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Location of Yucatec Mayan speaking areas on the Yucatan Peninsula
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