How do the Maya live today?

Answer 1

Approximately 7-8 million Mayan peoples, as of 2010, live throughout Guatemala and Belize, as well as in southern Mexico, specifically in the states of Chiapas, Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Tabasco.

Mayan is word that refers to the majority of these peoples, like an ethnic label. However this ethnic group is further divided into cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ethnic groups the majority of which have unique proper names, such as K'iche, Jacaltec, Mam, Cakchiquel, Chontal, Tzeltal, Tzotzil. Mayan is not really used as a label of ethnicity because of this ethnic diversity that spans across three nation-states.

There are about 28-32 Mayan languages (the number depends on which linguist you consult). These form the Mayan language family. Mayan is used to refer to the languages just as Latin or Romance is used to refer to the grouping of languages that share a common historical origin. However, just because Italian and French are Romance languages, we dont say that someone speaks Romance or Latin; she or he speaks Italian or French or some other language. All of the languages in the Mayan family similarly have their own proper name correspond to the ethnic labels noted above. Only one of these languages which is called Maya (without an "n"); this is the Mayan language that is spoken in Yucatan peninsula.

The idea that "There are no more Mayans living today" is a false idea creating through European colonialism and colonization of the Americas. Military conquest destroyed the cities of the peoples that lived in the Americas and converted these to abandoned ruins or were buried under new colonial cities.

As part of the political domination of Indian groups, Europeans (British, French, Spaniards, and Portuguese) spread the idea that these cities created by people who were no longer living or alive. This was a way to break the political will and historical memory of once having been an independent culture, society, and political state.

The idea -- that there are no Mayans living today -- is completely false and wrong. This erroneous misconception is promoted by many educational films, Documentary Films, Archaeology films, and the tourism industry under the idea of "Mystery" -- that the Maya are a mysterious culture and civilization.

In actuality, the Mayans by definition ONLY live "today"!!! That is, they are the descendents living "today" in the contemporary period following the end of colonialism (1821). They are the descendents of the Maya, which is the name of the given to the groups of people that lived BEFORE the European colonization of the Americas! Maya (used both for singular and plural) are the people known as the creators of the precolumbian Maya civilization.

We do not actually know the name of the ethnic-linguistic and cultural groups that they themselves used to refer to themselves and their neighbors. Thus, precolumbian Maya got their name from the Maya who live in Yucatan peninsula who the Spaniards encountered in 1517.

Answer 2

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................................... this was a waste of your time cuz.... I DON"T KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE!

Answer 3

The myan civilization no longer exists.