Yucatec Maya language

Yucatec Maya
mayaʼ tʼaan
maayaʼ tʼaan
Native toMexico, Belize
RegionYucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche
Native speakers
800,000 including 775,000 in Mexico (2020 census)[1]
Mayan
Official status
Official language in
Mexico[2]
Regulated byINALI
Language codes
ISO 639-3yua
Glottologyuca1254
ELPYucatec
Location of Yucatec Mayan speaking areas on the Yucatan Peninsula
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A Yucatec Maya speaker singing with a guitar.

Yucatec Maya (/ˈjuːkətɛk ˈmaɪə/ YOO-kə-tek MY-ə; referred to by its speakers as mayaʼ or maayaʼ t’aan [màːjaʔˈtʼàːn] ⓘ) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Francisco, though most Maya Americans are speakers of other Mayan languages from Guatemala and Chiapas.[3]

  1. ^ Yucatec Maya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Ley General de Derechos Lingüisticos Indígenas". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007.
  3. ^ Ancient Mayan languages are creating problems for today's immigration courts – LA Times