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Language Comparison: Yucatec Maya vs Makassar
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Aspect | Yucatec Maya | Makassar |
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Family | Mayan | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 800,000 | Approximately 2.1 million |
Features | 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 | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. |
Countries | Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo), Belize, and northern Guatemala | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) |
Tonal | No, but vowel length and stress are phonemic | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but uses a complex system of affixes to convey grammatical relations | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Classical Mayan, with significant historical continuity from the language of the ancient Maya civilization | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Spanish, especially in modern contexts | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch |
Dialects | Relatively homogeneous, but regional variants exist in pronunciation and vocabulary across the Yucatán Peninsula | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar |
Alphabets | A, B, Ch, D, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, Ts, U, W, X, Y | 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 |
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