Yucatec Maya
E269573
Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yucatec Maya canonical | 40 |
| Yucatec Maya language | 3 |
| Yucatec Maya (spoken in film) | 1 |
| Yucatec language continuum | 1 |
| Yucatec–Lacandon subgroup | 1 |
| eastern Yucatec Maya | 1 |
| western Yucatec Maya | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2329119 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yucatec Maya Context triple: [Tulum, indigenousLanguagePresence, Yucatec Maya]
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Mayan languages
Mayan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in southern Mexico and Central America, known for their ancient hieroglyphic writing and continuity from the Classic Maya civilization to modern Maya communities.
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D.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
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E.
Ixcatec language
The Ixcatec language is a highly endangered indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by a small community in Oaxaca, Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yucatec Maya Target entity description: Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Mayan languages
Mayan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in southern Mexico and Central America, known for their ancient hieroglyphic writing and continuity from the Classic Maya civilization to modern Maya communities.
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D.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
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E.
Ixcatec language
The Ixcatec language is a highly endangered indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by a small community in Oaxaca, Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language of Mexico ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Maayaʼ tʼàan
ⓘ
Maya yucateco ⓘ Yucateco ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Itza Maya
ⓘ
surface form:
Itzaj Maya
Lacandon ⓘ
surface form:
Lacandon Maya
Mopan Maya ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottocode | yuca1254 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Maya civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Yucatec Maya
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
western Yucatec Maya
|
| hasEducationalMaterial | bilingual primers and textbooks in Mexico ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
use of aspect markers instead of tense ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatusIn | Mexico (as an indigenous language) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone-like pitch distinctions ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity |
rural communities in Campeche
ⓘ
rural communities in Quintana Roo ⓘ rural communities in Yucatán ⓘ |
| historicallyWrittenWith | Maya hieroglyphic script ⓘ |
| iso639-1Code | yua ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| nativeName | Maayaʼ tʼàan ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Maya peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula
Yucatecan people ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatec Maya people
|
| spokenInCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| spokenInState |
Campeche state
ⓘ
surface form:
Campeche
Quintana Roo ⓘ Yucatán state ⓘ
surface form:
Yucatán
|
| subfamily | Yucatecan branch ⓘ |
| usedForWriting | colonial-era documents and chronicles ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bilingual education programs
ⓘ
local radio broadcasting ⓘ ritual and ceremonial contexts ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Yucatec Maya Description of subject: Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yucatán
this entity surface form:
Yucatec language continuum
this entity surface form:
Yucatec–Lacandon subgroup
this entity surface form:
Yucatec Maya (spoken in film)
this entity surface form:
Yucatec Maya language
subject surface form:
San Felipe, Yucatán
subject surface form:
Yucatán
subject surface form:
Campeche
this entity surface form:
eastern Yucatec Maya
this entity surface form:
western Yucatec Maya
subject surface form:
Southeastern Mexico
this entity surface form:
Yucatec Maya language
this entity surface form:
Yucatec Maya language