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There are a whole bunch of Yucatec Maya speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area -- reportedly tens of thousands!
by schoen 8y ago
There are a whole bunch of Yucatec Maya speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area -- reportedly tens of thousands!
- jacobolus 8y agoI hear people speaking Tzeltal on a regular basis in San Francisco. (A Maya language from Chiapas.)
- schoen 8y agoOne way to recognize Maya languages from Spanish without that much familiarity with either is that /ʃ/ (English "sh") is a common sound in all Maya languages but not present in Spanish (except Rioplatense Spanish). Also Maya languages make a lot of use of ejective consonants like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_and_alveolar_ejectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_and_alveolar_ejectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_ejective_affricate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_ejective_affricate