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Yucatecan

Yucatecan may refer to:

  • The Mexican state of Yucatán
  • The Yucatán Peninsula
  • The Yucatec Maya language and its speakers

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Usage examples of "yucatecan".

Moreover, the older manuscripts contain both words and forms unfamiliar to a cultivated Yucatecan of to-day.

Don Juan Pio Perez, who ranks among the ablest Yucatecan linguists of this century.

This is a series of extracts from various ancient Maya manuscripts obtained by the late distinguished Yucatecan antiquary, Don Juan Pio Perez, and named from him by Canon Crescencio Carrillo and other linguists.

These old documents were brought to light by the late eminent Yucatecan historian Doctor Justo Sierra, and Dr.

And now the fates and friendship had brought him to this sinkhole in the Yucatecan woodland to die at the hands of a madman-a very quick and able madman.

Bacab, who in the Yucatecan mythology were supposed to stand one at each corner of the world, supporting, like gigantic caryatides, the overhanging firmament.

With the aid of this alphabet, which has fortunately been preserved, we are enabled to spell out a few words on the Yucatecan manuscripts and facades, but thus far with no positive results.

They corresponded to the four gods Bacab, who in the Yucatecan mythology were supposed to stand one at each corner of the world, supporting, like gigantic caryatides, the overhanging firmament.