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Old 11-28-2006, 03:00 AM   #10
Lucern
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Nice work Larry.

Any good history acknowledges the impossibility of completeness. Of course, you've still got to try. [img]smile.gif[/img]

A few things to consider in this case: there are many kinds of modern Maya - Mayan has been as much a political and ethnic identification as it has been a linguistic one (and MUCH more than it has been a historical one). IIRC, an ethnography of social movements of Guatemala referred to ~25 different dialects spoken (many quite different from each other). Garifuna, Xinca, Mam, Kekchi, Cakchiquel, Quiche being ones common enough that you might find something about. Since this is an academic thing, if you need it I can find the source.
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