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Mayan

language family spoken in Mesoamerica
Language language_family Q33738
Mayan
Ле Лой, traducido Serg!o · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Mayan is a language family[1]. Mayan ranks in the top 4% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,561 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Location: Yucatan Peninsula[3]
  • Subclass of: Mesoamerican languages[4], Central American Indian languages[5]
  • Commons category: Mayan languages[6]
  • Start time: 3000 BC[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mayan languages[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Mayan languages[9]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MYN[10]
  • Linguistic typology: verb–object–subject[11], agglutinative language[12], polysynthetic language[13], ergative–absolutive language[14]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Mayan-language films[15]

Why It Matters

Mayan has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Mayan is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i72906
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06931991-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for films in this language → Category:Mayan-language films
    Start time → -3000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Local thumb → —
    Topic has template → Template:Mayan languages
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 38480, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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