Maya Man speaking Yucatec Maya [subtitled in English] Learn Maya

A Maya man in San Francisco speaking Yucateco Maya. There are over 20,000 Mayas in San Francisco, California; and about 750,000 in southern Mexico. Look for them when you visit Cancun.
He is deliberately speaking clearly to help others understand. He is describing the things you would see if you were to walk on the road into his home town of Oxkutzcab. These include restaurants a swimming pool, market and town square. About 10% of his vocabulary is Spanish, especially modern words and institutions. The larger towns use more Spanish and the purest form of Yucatec Mayan is found deep in the jungle/woods in small towns or settlements.

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• Maya
• Mayan
• Yucateco
• Yucatan
• Native American Language
• American Indian Language
• Oxkutzcab

[scorpian8king]

i am navajo apache zuni and mayan live in america i want to learn this languagfe i also speak dine bizaad as a first language

[NP4Mayans]

@scorpian8king You are lucky to speak Dine bizaad (Navajo) as a first language. It is really hard to learn and pretty complex as to pronunciation, grammar and morphology. No wonder it worked so well in World War II when the Navajo Code Talkers took it to the battlefront in the Pacific. 4 peoples? I bet that isn't common to have ancestors from 4 Native peoples.

[Elessidil91]

però,fiesta,praticar...listen to some of your videos,i notice that there are a lot of spanish words,why? isn't there a mayan word for them?

[NP4Mayans]

@Elessidil91 Correct. They mix in a lot of Spanish. You could say "Ba'ale" = pero; and "nohoch ki'imak uyool" = fiesta; but since Mayas have lots of contact with Spanish, they use it with their Maya. This is especially true for larger towns such as Oxkutzcab, where this guy comes from. Here in California many Mexicans mix in English.

[francho1982]

Estoy impresionado. Pensaba que los españoles nos habíamos cepillado toda las lenguas indígenas, además de cultura y religión... pero me sorprende gratamente que las lenguas sigan vivas. Que no decaiga.

[Kulenkenkep]

well man, as a linguistic and polyglot i must tell you that the ''spanish words'' as you call them, are used because there isn't an equivalent word for them in maya, such as ''restaurant'' there's no word for that in maya. And an aditional data, there are still mayan people at the south east part of the state of Quintana Roo, and they're not ''mestizos'' they are mayan, and not so tall as you describe them, check you sources first, tschüss.

[acu1inamillion]

IM KICHE MAYA AND TRACES ALSO FROM MEXICO UNLESS I GO BACK TO GUATEMALA TO THE ACADAMY OF MAYAN LANGUAGES WERE THEY KEEP RECORD OF ALL MAYAN LANUAGES WE ARE ON ARE OWN HERE IN AMERICA TO LEARN YUCA AND KICHE ARE THE LARGEST MAYAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL AMERICA ARE PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO LEARN I CAN SEE HOW AGRESSIVE EVERYONE IS SEARCHING THE WEB FOR BOOKS AND INFO ARE ANCESTORS SPOKE OF THE RE-BIRTH OF THE WINAQ(THE PEOPLE) ALL NATIVES IM BLESSED BECAUSE I STILL HAVE MY MAYAN LAST NAME

[xxxEmmureOwnxxx]

@numonemofan they do because, many aren't educated with their past and their language is a heritage. Many dont even know who the mayans, olmecs, aztecs, toltecs and many others. I got educated on mexican history.

[numonemofan]

@IrKeNoVa Is this supposed to be new or groundbreaking ? I think its very well documented that all native americans came from asian via the land bridge during the Ice ages and immigrated down the Americas. Even in Appearance, I have a friend from Singapore, and in Central America and South America in the indigenous communities, he looks exactly like them.

[numonemofan]

@xxxEmmureOwnxxx thats funny because most mexicans claim their ancestors are from Spain

[xxxEmmureOwnxxx]

i hate when other people of non-mexican or native speak about what they know about the natives.

TAKE MEXICAN HISTORY N CHICANO courses and you'll learn something other then bullshit

[IrKeNoVa]

@fspo1112 there is some kind of evidence, that Spanish were not the first people arriving to this continent, not even Nordics. There are almost 100 words in Mayan, that means the same in Chinese, so it's not weird to think that the Mayan may descend from some protoasian language.

[DerekIsAwesome1494]

Yucatec Maya is the language that they spoke in Apocalypto.