Javier Basulto<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>languagelovers</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndigenousLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MexicanLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanLanguages</span></a></p><p>Many indigenous <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexican</span></a> languages use the so-called “numeral classifiers” - similar to those existing in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese - which convey the form, position or nature of the counted object. The chart below shows some of the (still) used numeral classifiers in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yucatec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yucatec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MayaLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayaLanguage</span></a>, although many of them are often replaced by two general markers: “túul” for animate nouns and “p’éel” for inanimate objects.</p>