CIT provides interpreters and translators for Mayan languages including Q’anjob’al for various needs such as legal, medical, and specialty experience, including criminal and civil matters, employee meetings, engineering, patent cases, labor disputes, immigration, and more. If you're in need of us right away, call 888.737.900.
You may ask, how can a California-based language translation company help Mayans in Palm Beach County, Jupiter, and Lake Worth in Florida?
Our network of comprehensive Mayan language services includes interpreters from around the US and the globe. Our translation and transcription service is provided, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. Our interpreters and translators are native speakers who have been screened, certified, have provided credentials, field-tested, and kept up to date with developments in both English and the Mayan language through means such as lectures, conferences, and travel. CIT’s Mayan language interpreters and translators possess in-depth knowledge of the Mayan language, as well as of the culture and history of the Mayan people, allowing them to provide informed and complete interpretation and translation.
Over 6 million people, mainly in Central America, speak Mayan. There are approximately 69 languages that compose the Mayan language family. The Mayan language is believed to have originated about 5000 years ago from the Proto-Mayan family of languages. The primary speakers of Proto-Mayan were those who lived in the Mayan empire, many of which their remains can be found in modern day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico. The Mayan empire was quite powerful and successful for many centuries from 1500 BC but came to a downfall around the 9th and 10th centuries AD.
Today, the largest bodies of Mayan speaking people are found in Mexico, specifically in the Yucatan, Campeche, Quitana Roo, Tabasco and Chiapas states. Historically speaking, Mayan has been well documented and the language classifications have been widely accepted by the Mayan people. The 69 language groups that Mayan is divided into are based widely on the ancestors who spoke the language. The first language to split from the Mayan languages was the Huastecan branch of languages, composed of Huastec and Chicomuceltec, which are now extinct languages. The next language to branch off was Yucatecan family, comprosed of Yucatec Maya, Lacandon, Itzaj and Mopan.
The largest branch of Mayan, known as Core Mayan, broke into several other languages. They include Greater Tzeltana, Greater Q’anjob’alan, and Eastern Mayan. Greater Tzeltalan broke into Ch’olan and Tzeltan. Ch’olan Langues include Chontoa, Ch’ol, Ch’orti, and Cholti, which is extinct. Tzeltanan includes Tzeltan and Tzolzil. Greater Q’anjob’alan is comprised of Q’anjob’alan (made up of Mocho’, Tuzantec, Q’anjob’al, Akateko, Jakalteko) and Chujean (Chuj and Tojolabal). Eastern Mayan has two branches: K’ichean (K’iche’, Kaqchike, Tz’utujil, Sakapulteko, Sipakepeno, Poqomam, Poqomchi’ Uspanteko, Q’eqchi’). Mamean languages include Mam, Teco, Awakateko, and Ixil.
In the 4th and 3rd centuries BC up until the 1600s, the Mayan languages were written in a complex hieroglyphic writing system. It had not been accurately deciphered until the mid-1900s. Since the language was deciphered, historians were much better able to understand Mayan history. It has been noted that the main speakers of the Classic Maya languages were the Ch’olan language speakers. They had a large influence on those who spoke Mayan and their non-speaking Mayan neighbors.
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