How Do You Translate English To Mayan?
If you think Mayan is a dead, forgotten language, you’re wrong–millions of times over. In Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize, more than six million people speak about 30 Mayan languages today. (These languages all come from Proto-Mayan, spoken thousands of years ago during the Mayan heyday.) It’s not easy, but you can find ways to translate Mayan to and from other languages. Here’s how to translate English into Yucatec Maya, a language currently used by more than 750,000 people. If you only need to translate individual words, look at an English-Mayan dictionary. (Mayan is now written in Roman letters, so you don’t have to study ancient hieroglyphs.) Check out hard-copy books such as “Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook” or English-Mayan websites (see Resources below). Don’t bother with most traditional translation websites, though–they usually cover more popular languages and don’t include Mayan. If you have a document to translate but you don’t know Mayan, use a translation s
