[Aztlan] Gregorian month names in Mayan languages II

[Nick Hopkins]

OK, that reply got totally trashed; the original had Tojolabal words  
after each of the Spanish month names.  Let me change the format and  
try again:

Ivan -- Your instincts are good.  This is the kind of words you don't  
even find in many dictionaries because they are just loanwords from  
Spanish (cf. Cordemex dictionary of Yucatec Maya, which doesn't list  
any month names).  But there are exceptional dictionaries, such as  
Lenkersdorf's Tojolabal dictionary*, which tries to include all the  
words in common usage regardless of their origin, and has:

enero is enero; febrero is jebrero, pebrero; marzo is marso; abril is  
abril; mayo is mayo; junio is junyo; julio is julyo; agosto is  
agosto; septiembre is septyembre, setyembre; octubre is oktubre;  
noviembre is nobyembre; diciembre is disyembre.

* Source: B'omak'umal kastiya - tojol ab'al.  Diccionario español- 
tojolabal.  Preparado por Carlos Lenkersdorf.  México, D. F.:  
Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, 1981.

Nick Hopkins


On Dec 14, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:

> Hi All--
> I just received an interesting question from someone not on the list:
> "Would you know the month names for the GREGORIAN calendar in Mayan  
> (Latin
> Script)  (I assume they're probably transliterations of the Spanish
> names)."
>
> Nope, I don't, I said, but I'll ask on AZTLAN.  My bet is there are
> multiple people who know the answer, and in multiple languages if
> applicable.
>
> Metta,
> Ivan
> -- 
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