Some are spoken by hundreds of thousands of people; some by fewer than 5,000. The highly endangered Mayan language Itzá is spoken fluently by around 150 people living in the village of San José, on ...

Upon their arrival in the Yucatan, the group known as the Itza were referred to as “the people who speak our language brokenly” by the existing Yucatec Maya. Their strange language may be a ...