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Language Comparison: Hiligaynon vs Yucatec Maya
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Aspect | Hiligaynon | Yucatec Maya |
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Family | Austronesian | Mayan |
Speakers | Approximately 9.3 million | Approximately 800,000 |
Features | Also known as Ilonggo, widely spoken in the Western Visayas and Soccsksargen regions of the Philippines | 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 | Philippines | Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, and northern Guatemala |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No, but vowel length and stress are phonemic |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses prepositions and a focus marker system | No, but uses a complex system of affixes to convey grammatical relations |
Derived From | Part of the Philippine branch of the Austronesian language family | Classical Mayan, with significant historical continuity from the language of the ancient Maya civilization |
Loanwords | From Spanish, English, and other Philippine languages | From Spanish, especially in modern contexts |
Dialects | Includes Iloilo Hiligaynon, Bacolod Hiligaynon, and others | 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, Ñ, Ng, 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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