Hello everyone. I am adding common names in Maya for the Yucatan Peninsula. At present in the language classification there are five options for Maya. Maya, Maya (Lacandón), Maya (Peninsular), Maya (Q´eqchi), and Maya (Yucatec). The main issue is that Maya (Peninsular) and Maya (Yucatec) are one an…

Issue solved!! The two lexicons were merged! Thank you!!!

I moved this out of Bug Reports because I don’t think it’s a technical issue. Anyone can add a lexicon. This is more of a policy/community decision. I don’t know enough about Mayan to recommend a path forward, is there anyone in your region who can provide some insight as to what would be most bene…

Thanks Tony, I have asked around and for the Yucatán Peninsula the majority of mayan people speak Maya Peninsular=Maya Yucateco. Some recent immigrants speak tsotsil, tzeltal, chol…

Carlos is correct. Maya Peninsular = Maya Yucateco. The answer to which one should be kept will be invariably arbitrary. Most people in the peninsula refer to it simply as Maya, but only because Yucatec/Peninsular is the predominant language in the region. On the other hand, Yucatec is not satisfa…

[image] dariocantu: mayaʼ tʼaan Could it be? Mayaʼ tʼaan (Yucateco, Peninsular) Since the other names are more common? Then we accomplish your proposal… C.

The rest of the Mayan languages would not be uniform then, which I don’t know how to feel about. i.e. Lacandón would have to be adjusted to Jach-t’aan (Lacandón) and so on. It’s an interesting proposal but I feel unsure to push it forward not being native and not knowing anyone from the area mysel…

My question is WHO can merge or delete one of the two maya languages which are the same. Otherwise, we are splitting the effort…

[image] carlos2: WHO can merge or delete one of the two maya languages which are the same. Only iNat staff can do that.

Joining two maya languages which are one and the same

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Joining two maya languages which are one and the same

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