Yucatec

American  

[yoo-kuh-tek] / ˈyu kəˌtɛk /

noun

plural

Yucatecs,

plural

Yucatec

1. a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán, Mexico.

2. Also called Yucatec Mayan.  the Mayan language of these people.

3. a native or inhabitant of Yucatán, Mexico.

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Other Word Forms

• Yucatecan adjective

Example Sentences

The team of archaeologists who discovered the ruins named them Ocomtún, using the Yucatec Maya word for the stone columns found around the ancient city.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Filmmakers hired Maya Mexican actor Josué Maychi to play a shaman and teach cast members his Yucatec Mayan language.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

“He was working in two languages that are not his first, English and in Yucatec Maya, while performing with prosthetics 15 feet underwater,” Coogler said via voice note.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Those stars were the Pleiades—in Yucatec, tsab, or the rattle of the snake—and he told her that the cluster’s predawn appearances began as the harvest approached.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022

Fortunately the native artist had the time to sculpture the Yucatec hieroglyphs, which are the proof of its true origin.

From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Holden, Edward Singleton