Wow! speaking the MAYAN language
 

I have construction going on around the house and I just noticed today that the workers were speaking a language amongst themselves that I had never heard before. So I asked them what it was and they said it's Mayan. One would think it's a dead language, but obviously it's not, and it's actually a very pretty language.
Very nice of these people to keep their idiosyncrasy and language.

All right, the memory of the Mayan civilization is not lost. Here are some ancient Mayan ruins and artifacts:

http://www.2012unveiled.com/images/m...ndar%204.1.gif

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/geocen...yan_cosmos.jpg

http://www.gbarkman.com/morgan/images/mayan350.jpg

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/arch/images/mayan.jpg

http://news.spirithit.com/images/upl..._Mayan_378.jpg

http://www.destination360.com/centra...e-of-copan.jpg

sounds very fluid.. guess we know who got there first lol

:party-smi:party-smiI hope you have documents for these workers:party-smi

Did they say we are all going to die in 2012?

I wonder how close Mayan is to the Spanish that South Americans speak? I've been to some of those ruins, it's very interesting and I definitely plan to go again.

Pretty cool to hear what people thought of as a dead and ancient language.

PBS ran a great show on interpreting the written language and how they began re-teaching the children. Cracking the Maya Code: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/

It's a story within a story because the guy who helped crack the code was a child who was there with a parent, and just intuitively figured out things that the experts were stuck on.

There are Mayan Indians all over Central America...I've been to Mayan Ruins.

durrrrrrrrr

maybe they were just fucking with you?

Very cool.

they're legal here. I had to show them MY documents, after all I'm in Cancun, and I'm the foreigner here ;)

not only is a live language, but there are several Mayan dialects, I have a book in Txotxil I bought in Chiapas and in many cities in the south of Mexico you can see bilingual schools that teach one or more Mayan dialects and Spanish. In Lacandona Jungle I've met people that doesn't speak Spanish or speak it very badly

I just destroyed Aztec civilization in civilization V :)Anyone still speaking their language?

yes, there's people still talking Nahuatl no matter what you did to them :winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :thumbsup:thumbsup

Mayan is not anything like Spanish. It is not a romance language and is very unique.