Talk:List of Mayan languages

Suggestion

This is looking quite good. With a little more attention, the addition of some explanatory context, cites/refs and years for the figures and maybe a location map, this could worked into a Featured List. I guess the FA nom for the main article should be cleared first, tho... anyways- nice work.--cjllw | TALK 23:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

speaker populations

Firstly, these all use period (.) as the thousands separator; while this is the case in many European countries, comma is the usual one in most countries where English is an official language. So for en: I think comma would be better.

I also wonder where these figures are sourced - they look like they have been taken from Ethnologue, but those tend to be somewhat inflated. At least they are comparable across many linguistic groups, I suppose.

72.224.120.80 02:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Major cleanup needed

Thanks to Nora England, the silly Ethnologue-based multiplication of dialects has now been cleaned up in ISO-693. See her request to ISO and, for instance, a page for one of the deleted language codes. We need to clean up this page now. It is not too easy - you have to add to all the speaker numbers and subtract from all the right rowspans. I did Chol. Here's the new list (copied and edited from ethnologue, numbers NOT valid):

Mayan (69)

Cholan-Tzeltalan (12)

Cholan (4)

Chol-Chontal (3)

Chontal, Tabasco  [chf] (Mexico)

Chol  [ctu] (Mexico)

Chorti (1)

Ch'orti'  [caa] (Guatemala)

Tzeltalan (8)

Tzeltal,  [tzh] (Mexico)

Tzotzil,  [tzo] (Mexico)

Huastecan (4)

Chicomuceltec  [cob] (Mexico)

Huastec  [hus] (Mexico)

Kanjobalan-Chujean (8)

Chujean (3)

Chuj  [cac] (Guatemala)

Tojolabal  [toj] (Mexico)

Kanjobalan (5)

Kanjobal-Jacaltec (4)

Jakalteko (Popti')  [jac] (Guatemala)

Q'anjob'al [kjb] (Guatemala)

Akateko  [knj] (Guatemala) (NOT ISO name; official name is still the outdated “western kanjobal”)

Mocho (1)

Mocho  [mhc] (Mexico)

Quichean-Mamean (40)

Greater Mamean (11)

Ixilan (4)

Awakateko  [agu] (Guatemala)

Ixil [ixl] (Guatemala)

Mamean (7)

Mam [mam] (Guatemala)

Tektiteko  [ttc] (Guatemala)

Greater Quichean (29)

Kekchi (1)

Q'eqchi'  [kek] (Guatemala)

Pocom (5)

Poqomam  [poc] (Guatemala)

Poqomchi'  [poh] (Guatemala) Quichean (20)

Cakchiquel (10)

Kaqchikel  [cak] (Guatemala)

Quiche-Achi (8)

Achi', [acr] (Guatemala)

K'iche'  [quc] (Guatemala)

Tzutujil (2)

Tz'utujil [tzj] (Guatemala)

Sacapulteco (1)

Sakapulteko  [quv] (Guatemala)

Sipacapeno (1)

Sipakapense  [qum] (Guatemala)

Uspantec (1)

Uspanteko  [usp] (Guatemala)

Yucatecan (5)

Mopan-Itza (2)

Itza'  [itz] (Guatemala)

Maya, Mopán  [mop] (Belize)

Yucatec-Lacandon (3)

Lacandon  [lac] (Mexico)

Maya, Yucatán  [yua] (Mexico)

Homunq (talk) 05:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

done. Homunq (talk) 09:48, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for that Homunq. Someone had gone thru a few of the affected language articles and cleaned up to the revised/rationalised codes. Haven't checked to see if all relevant articles were touched. --cjllw ʘ TALK 07:47, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Bold

Why are some subgroups written in bold and others not? I can't see any explanation of this in the article. Haakon K (talk) 05:50, 20 October 2009 (UTC)