Talk:Mesoamerican languages

message: Oto-Manguean, Mixe-Zoque speaker figures need to be updated.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kwamikagami (talk • contribs) 18 September 2005.
I edited the page to make a distinction between mesoamerican languages as a language spoken within mesoamerica and mesoamerican language as a language showing traits that makes it classifiable as a member of the mesoamerican sprachbund or linguistic area. I created a page called Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, that should be started. To those that are uncertain about the implications of linguistic area:  the reasons of defining mesoamerica as a cultural area is the high level of similarities in culture, architecture etc. which are the resulst of shared developments and influences between the peoples in the mesoamerican geographical area. This interaction and shared developments also affected (some of)the lanmguages that spoke in the area an cause genetically unrelated languages to develop grammatical similarities. The languages that can be seen to show some or most of these shared traits are also called Mesoamerican Languages.--Someoneelse 20:51, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: Could someone tell me what is the stuff in square brackets? Pronunciation? Whose pronunciation? It is definitley not the native pronunciation since most of the names are not used by the speakers of the languages themselves at all. It also doesnt seem to be the normal english or spanish pronunciation of the words. And the phonetic alphabet is very weird, isn't IPA the standard here? If nobody explains I will strike them all from the list.--Maunus 22:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: pronunciation?(the stuf in square brackets)

message: Why is the entire history section entitled "Linguistic prehistory"? There are written records from the Classic period onwards (from a time when most European peoples were illiterate), a great part of them have been deciphered, most of them document historical events. So how is that not history?--87.162.6.147 (talk) 18:06, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are only preclombian texts in two languages of Mesoamerica before contact with european languages. The information included in the section is mainly arrived at through linguistic reconstruction not through the use of pre-clombian histórical sources. Generally linguistics and the knowledge of the prehistory of mesoamerican languages has helped the decipherment of the precolumbian scripts more than the decipherment of the scripts has improved our knowledge about the historyu of the languages. I think those are the arguments for naming the section like that. I wouldn't revert if someone changed it to history in stead of prehistory.·Maunus·ƛ· 13:35, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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message: Several sources name the entity an empire, still, one editor removed the claim  . I re-installed it. Eldizzino (talk) 23:35, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
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