Yucatec Mayan Sign Language

Highland Mayan Sign Language

Footnotes

1. ^Maya Sign Language atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
2. ^Navigating North and South for Native Knowledge by Patricia Valdata for DiverseEducation.com, 2005.

Further reading

• Johnson, Robert E. (1991). "Sign language, culture & community in a traditional Yucatec Maya village".Sign Language Studies.73 (73):461–474.doi:10.1353/sls.1991.0031.JSTOR 26204776.
• Shuman, Malcolm K.; Cherry-Shuman, Mary Margaret (1981). "A brief annotated sign list of Yucatec Maya sign language".Language Sciences.3 (1):124–185.doi:10.1016/S0388-0001(81)80017-4.
• Shuman, Malcolm K. (1980). "The sound of silence in Nohya: a preliminary account of sign language use by the deaf in a Maya community in Yucatán, Mexico".Language Sciences.2 (1):144–173.doi:10.1016/S0388-0001(80)80009-X.
• Du Bois, John W. (1978).Mayan sign language: An ethnography of non-verbal communication. 77th annual meeting,American Anthropological Association. Los Angeles.
• Smith, Hubert L. (1982).The Living Maya. A 4-hour film documentary on the Yucatecan community with scenes of the deaf and their uses of sign.
• Smith, Hubert L. (1977–2006) A corpus of film and video expressly devoted to the Maya deaf and archived at The Smithsonian Institution.
• Fox Tree, Erich (Spring 2009). "Meemul Tziij:An Indigenous Sign Language Complex of Mesoamerica".Sign Language Studies.9 (3):324–366.doi:10.1353/sls.0.0016.
• Le Guen, Olivier (2012). "An exploration in the domain of time: from Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs". In U. Zeshan; C. de Vos (eds.).Endangered Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguisitic Insights. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter & Ishara Press. pp. 209–250.doi:10.1515/9781614511496.209.ISBN 978-1-61451-203-5.

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