The Mayan Languages

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<P><EM>The Mayan Languages</EM> presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200¿900), a family whose individual languages are still spoken today by at least six million indigenous Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. </P><br/><br/><P>This unique resource is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mayan languages and linguistics. Written by a team of experts in the field, <I>The Mayan Languages</I> presents in-depth accounts of the linguistic features that characterize the thirty-one languages of the family, their historical evolution, and the social context in which they are spoken. </P><br/><br/><P><EM>The Mayan Languages</EM>:</P><br/><br/><UL><br/><br/><P><br/><br/><LI>provides detailed grammatical sketches of approximately a third of the Mayan languages, representing most of the branches of the family; </LI><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P><br/><br/><LI>includes a section on th