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Language Comparison: Alur vs Yucatec Maya
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Aspect | Alur | Yucatec Maya |
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Family | Nilo-Saharan | Mayan |
Speakers | Approximately 2 million | Approximately 800,000 |
Features | Spoken by the Alur people in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo | A Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, known for its glottalized consonants and vowel length distinctions. It preserves many features of the ancient Mayan script, though now written in Latin script |
Countries | Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, and northern Guatemala |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes, tonal language where pitch can affect meaning | No, but vowel length and stress are phonemic |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses noun classes and verb conjugations to express grammatical relationships | No, but uses a complex system of affixes to convey grammatical relations |
Derived From | Part of the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family | Classical Mayan, with significant historical continuity from the language of the ancient Maya civilization |
Loanwords | From Swahili, English, and other local languages | From Spanish, especially in modern contexts |
Dialects | Minor regional variations but largely mutually intelligible across Alur-speaking areas | Relatively homogeneous, but regional variants exist in pronunciation and vocabulary across the Yucatán Peninsula |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, Ch, D, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, Ts, U, W, X, Y |
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