Re: New Mel Gibson film to be in Mayan



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> "Mayan" isn't a language. It's a language family with 20-odd distinct
> languages spoken today, and three or four ancestral ones recorded in the
> inscriptions.

I assume this is why the article used the phrase "a Mayan dialect".
I took it to mean they have a specific language in mind, but the
general public wouldn't recognize the name. And we're all familiar
with this misuse of the word "dialect".

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