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Language Comparison: Makassar vs Yucatec Maya
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Aspect | Makassar | Yucatec Maya |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Mayan |
Speakers | Approximately 2.1 million | Approximately 800,000 |
Features | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. | 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 | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) | Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, and northern Guatemala |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No, but vowel length and stress are phonemic |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships | No, but uses a complex system of affixes to convey grammatical relations |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | Classical Mayan, with significant historical continuity from the language of the ancient Maya civilization |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch | From Spanish, especially in modern contexts |
Dialects | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar | 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, NG, NY, 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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