Mayan Languages
What Mayan language branch only has 2 languages?
A. Core Mayan
B. Yucatecan
C. Huastecan branch
C. Huastecan branch
What Mayan language is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula?
A. Yucatec Maya
B. Itzáj
C. Chicomuceltec
B. Itzáj
What language from the Yucatecan Branch was first spoken 1,000 years ago?
A. Yucatec Maya
B. Mopan
C. Lacandon
C. Lacandon
What language from the Huastecan branch has 82,000 speakers, (covering there 3 dialects)?
A. Huastec
B. Chicomuceltec
A. Huastec
A peninsula is a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
True
or
False
True
What language from the Huastecan Branch has three dialects?
A. Huastec
B. Chicomuceltec
A. Huastec
What language from the Yucatecan Branch is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá?
A. Mopan
B. Lacandon
B. Lacandon
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
Which language from the Yucatecan Branch has over 800,000 speakers?
A. Mopan
B. Lacandon and Itzáj
C. Yucatec Maya
C. Yucatec Maya
The definition of a peak is the top of something?
True
or
False
False
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
What language from the Huastecan Branch is mostly spoken in the Chiapas Highlands Region?
A. Chicomuceltec
B. Huastec
A. Chicomuceltec
What language from the Yucatecan Branch was first spoken 1,000 years ago?
A. Yucatec Maya
B. Lacandon and Itzáj
C. Mopan
C. Mopan
What language from the Huastecan branch has 1,500 speakers in Mexico and 100 in Guatemala?
A. Huastec
B. Chicomuceltec
B. Chicomuceltec
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.
What sub-branch of Core Mayan has the most languages?
A. Eastern Mayan
B. Greater Q’anjob’alan
C. K’ichean
C. K’ichean
What Mayan language is both spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize?
A. Yucatec Maya
B. Itzáj
C. Huastec
A. Yucatec Maya
What sub-branch of languages was first spoken in the year 1701?
A. K’ichean
B. Eastern Mayan
A. K’ichean
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
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
Which of these Mayan Language branches has the most sub-branches?
A. Huastecan branch
B. Core Mayan
C. Yucatecan
B. Core Mayan
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
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
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
A dialect is a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group?
True
or
False
True