Yucatecan languages

The Yucatecan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Itzaj, Lacandon, Mopan, and Yucatec. The languages are presently extant in the Yucatán Peninsula, encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.

Yucatecan
Yukatekan
EthnicityMaya peoples
Geographic
distribution		Belize, Guatemala, Mexico / former, now
Native speakers
(720,600 cited 1990–2006)
Linguistic classificationMayan
  • Core Mayan
    • Yucatecan
Proto-languageProto-Yucatecan
Subdivisions
  • Mopan–Itzaj
  • Yucatec–Lacandon
Glottologyuca1252
Current extent of Yucatecan languages in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico
NotesClassification, subdivisions, former distribution per Aissen, England & Zavala Maldonado 2017, pp. 44–45, 64. Speakers, current distribution per Lewis 2009, pp. 233, 265–266, 274.
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