Title A dictionary of the Maya language : as spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán / Victoria R. Bricker, Eleuterio Poòt Yah, Ofelia Dzul de Poòt ; with a botanical index by Anne S. Bradburn

Published Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 410 pages) : illustrations, map Contents A Dictionary of the Maya Language; History of the Project; Orthography and Pronunciation; Roots; Stems; Cross-references; Acknowledgments; A Dictionary of the Maya Language As Spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán; References Cited Summary "The Maya language of Yucatan is known as Yucatec by linguists, but its speakers refer to it as Maya. Dialectical differences are minimal across the peninsula, and the more than 750,000 speakers of Maya can be understood wherever they go. Moreover, it is not only a living language but is of great use to epigraphers working on ancient Maya glyphs." "This dictionary is the culmination of fourteen years' labor centering on the town and dialect of Hocaba. Whereas other dictionaries of Maya use Latin paradigms, this is the first to provide a comprehensive, systematic listing of the stems that can be derived from each root and that give Maya its distinctive character. The entries cover the full range of Maya speech, from simple expressions and idioms to compound stems. Many sample sentences provide a window onto the richness of everyday communication, with its mixture of wit, epithets, insults, riddles and aphorisms, and exchanges of information." "Among the cultural domains encompassed by the dictionary are agriculture, architecture, astronomy, culinary practices and recipes, education, folklore, games, humor, medical prescriptions, ritual, toys, and weaving, many of which have roots in the Precolumbian past. In addition to the dictionary entries, this work also contains a short grammar, a botanical index, and a bibliography."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-410) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Maya language -- Dictionaries. Maya language -- Dialects -- Yucatán Peninsula FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages. Maya language Maya language -- Dialects Wörterbuch Yucateeks. Engels. Maya (langue) -- Dictionnaires. Maya (langue) -- Dialectes -- Yucatán (péninsule) Central America -- Yucatán Peninsula Maya-Sprache. Genre/Form Dictionaries Form Electronic book Author Poʻot Yah, Eleuterio Dzul de Poʻot, Ofelia ISBN 0585112177 9780585112176

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