Mayan Languages
Where they're spoken
Language History
amount of speakers
vocabulary
100

What Mayan language branch only has 2 languages?

A. Core Mayan

B. Yucatecan

C. Huastecan branch

C. Huastecan branch

100

What Mayan language is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula?

A. Yucatec Maya

B. Itzáj

C. Chicomuceltec

B. Itzáj

100

What language from the Yucatecan Branch was first spoken 1,000 years ago?

A. Yucatec Maya

B. Mopan

C. Lacandon

C. Lacandon

100

What language from the Huastecan branch has 82,000 speakers, (covering there 3 dialects)?

A. Huastec

B. Chicomuceltec

A. Huastec

100

A peninsula is a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

True

or 

False

True

200

What language from the Huastecan Branch has three dialects?

A. Huastec

B. Chicomuceltec

A. Huastec

200

What language from the Yucatecan Branch is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá?

A. Mopan

B. Lacandon

B. Lacandon

200

What language from the Huastecan branch was first documented in the 19th century but started declining in the 20th?

A. Huastec

B. Chicomuceltec

B. Chicomuceltec

200

Which language from the Yucatecan Branch has over 800,000 speakers?

A. Mopan

B. Lacandon and Itzáj

C. Yucatec Maya

C. Yucatec Maya

200

The definition of a peak is the top of something?

True 

or

False

False

300

Which of these languages is not a sub-branch of a Mayan Language?

A. Q’anjob’al

B. Greater Tzeltalan

C. Eastern Mayan

A. Q’anjob’al

300

What language from the Huastecan Branch is mostly spoken in the Chiapas Highlands Region?

A. Chicomuceltec

B. Huastec

A. Chicomuceltec

300

What language from the Yucatecan Branch was first spoken 1,000 years ago?

A. Yucatec Maya

B. Lacandon and Itzáj

C. Mopan

C. Mopan

300

What language from the Huastecan branch has 1,500 speakers in Mexico and 100 in Guatemala?

A. Huastec

B. Chicomuceltec

B. Chicomuceltec

300

What is the definition of classifiers?

A. People who classify languages

B. an affix or word that indicates the semantic class to which a noun belongs, typically used in numerals or other expressions of counting.

B. an affix or word that indicates the semantic class to which a noun belongs, typically used in numerals or other expressions of counting.

400

What sub-branch of Core Mayan has the most languages?

A. Eastern Mayan

B. Greater Q’anjob’alan

C. K’ichean

C. K’ichean

400

What Mayan language is both spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize?

A. Yucatec Maya

B. Itzáj

C. Huastec

A. Yucatec Maya

400

What sub-branch of languages was first spoken in the year 1701?

A. K’ichean

B. Eastern Mayan

A. K’ichean

400

What sub-branch from the core Mayan has 77,000 speakers?

A. Eastern Mayan

B. Greater Q’anjob’alan

C. Greater Tzeltalan

B. Greater Q’anjob’alan

400

A dissected plateau is a plateau with caves in it? True 

or

False

False

A dissected plateau is usually an extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side

500

Which of these Mayan Language branches has the most sub-branches?

A. Huastecan branch

B. Core Mayan

C. Yucatecan

B. Core Mayan

500

What language from the Yucatecan Branch is Spoken in the Petén Department of Guatemala and in the Maya Mountains region of Belize?

A. Mopan

B. Yucatec Maya

A. Mopan

500

What language from the Yucatecan Branch was first spoken 5,000 years ago?

A. Mopan

B. Yucatec Maya

C. Lacandon and Itzáj

B. Yucatec Maya

500

What 2 languages from the Yucatecan branch both have 1,000 speakers?

A. Itzáj and Lacandon

B. Mopan and Lacandon 

C. Yucatec Maya and Lacandon

A. Itzáj and Lacandon

500

A dialect is a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group?

True

or

False


True

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