Yuc·a·tec

(yo͞o′kə-tĕk′)

n. pl. Yucatec or Yuca·tecs

1. A member of a Mayan people inhabiting the Yucatán Peninsula.

2. The Mayan language of the Yucatec.

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Yu•ca•tec

(ˈyu kəˌtɛk)

n., pl. -tecs, (esp. collectively) -tec.

1. a member of an American Indian people of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

2. Also called Yu′catec Ma′yan. the Mayan language of these people.

Yu`ca•tec′an, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Yucatec - a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico Yucateco Maya, Mayan - a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar"
	2.	Yucatec - a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec Yucateco Mayan language, Maya, Mayan - a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya

Translations

maya yucateco

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Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community tells the story of Chunhuhub at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing on the resource management of plants and animals.

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Gibson wrote the script and is directing and producing the film, which is in the Mayan dialect of the Yucatec language.

Mel hints at acting bow out

Drinking lead and human excrement might seem an extreme treatment for invisible sores in this finicky age, but it is highly recommended in this 18th-century Yucatec transcript of herbal remedies.

An eighteenth century herbal; book of very reliable remedies for curing various ailments with well proven and beneficial plants from this province of Yucatan

Anderson, Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community.

Scholarship and research

Other sorts of classifier systems occur in some languages like Yucatec Mayan, where they are used not only to count nouns, but also to inflect verbs as to the ontological category of nouns in construction with the verbs.

Style stands still

The social impacts of televised media among the Yucatec Maya.

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This alternative perspective leads the authors to an analysis of different forms of apprenticeship -- ranging from Mexican Yucatec midwives to American meat-cutters as examples of what they term as legitimate peripheral participation -- where learne rs begin their learning journey as legitimate observers participating in a practice or activity context.

Forging links between "communities of practice" and schools through online learning communities: implications for appropriating and negotiating knowledge

in Yucatec Maya, as well as a bunch of kennings (the poetic form called

What Spain Interrupted

The theory of "situated learning" and concept of "community of practice" were developed and articulated by Lave and Wenger (1991), who provide an analysis of situated learning in five different settings: Yucatec midwives, native tailors, navy quartermasters, meat cutters, and alcoholics.

Analysis of Design from a Community of Practice Dialogue: Negotiating the Meaning of Auditing Information System Development

Restall, Matthew, The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society 1550-1850.

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