Mayan Sign Language
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Mayan Sign Language (Template:Langx or yucateca) is a sign language used in Mexico and Guatemala by Mayan communities with unusually high numbers of deaf inhabitants. In some instances, both hearing and deaf members of a village may use the sign language. It is unrelated to the national sign languages of Mexico (Mexican Sign Language) and Guatemala (Guatemalan Sign Language), as well as to the local spoken Mayan languages and Spanish.
Yucatec Mayan Sign Language
Yucatec Maya Sign Language, is used in the Yucatán region by both hearing and deaf rural Maya. It is a natural, complex language which is not related to Mexican Sign Language, but may have similarities with sign languages found in nearby Guatemala.
As the hearing villagers are competent in the sign language, the deaf inhabitants seem to be well integrated into the community – in contrast to the marginalization of deaf people in the wider community, and also in contrast to Highland Mayan Sign Language. [citation needed]
The oral language of the community is the Yucatec Maya language.
Highland Mayan Sign Language
In the highlands of Guatemala, Maya use a sign language that belongs to a "sign language complex" known locally in the Kʼicheʼ language as Meemul Chʼaabʼal and Meemul Tziij, "mute language." Researcher Erich Fox Tree reports that it is used by deaf rural Maya throughout the region, as well as some traders and traditional storytellers. These communities and Fox Tree believe that Meemul Chʼaabʼal belongs to an ancient family of Maya sign languages.[2] Fox Tree claims that Yucatec Maya Sign Language is closely related and substantially mutually intelligible.
Footnotes
- ^ Maya Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Navigating North and South for Native Knowledge by Patricia Valdata for DiverseEducation.com, 2005.
Further reading
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson, Robert E. (1991). "Sign language, culture & community in a traditional Yucatec Maya village". Sign Language Studies. 73 (73): 461–474. doi:10.1353/sls.1991.0031. JSTOR 26204776.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shuman, Malcolm K.; Cherry-Shuman, Mary Margaret (1981). "A brief annotated sign list of Yucatec Maya sign language". Language Sciences. 3 (1): 124–185. doi:10.1016/S0388-0001(81)80017-4.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shuman, Malcolm K. (1980). "The sound of silence in Nohya: a preliminary account of sign language use by the deaf in a Maya community in Yucatán, Mexico". Language Sciences. 2 (1): 144–173. doi:10.1016/S0388-0001(80)80009-X.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Du Bois, John W. (1978). Mayan sign language: An ethnography of non-verbal communication. 77th annual meeting, American Anthropological Association. Los Angeles.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Hubert L. (1982). The Living Maya. A 4-hour film documentary on the Yucatecan community with scenes of the deaf and their uses of sign.
- Smith, Hubert L. (1977–2006) A corpus of film and video expressly devoted to the Maya deaf and archived at The Smithsonian Institution.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fox Tree, Erich (Spring 2009). "Meemul Tziij:An Indigenous Sign Language Complex of Mesoamerica". Sign Language Studies. 9 (3): 324–366. doi:10.1353/sls.0.0016.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Le Guen, Olivier (2012). "An exploration in the domain of time: from Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs". In U. Zeshan; C. de Vos (eds.). Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter & Ishara Press. pp. 209–250. doi:10.1515/9781614511496.209. ISBN 978-1-61451-203-5.
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