Mayan Civilization: Causes Of Extinction Of Your Language

Mayan civilization: causes of extinction of your language

Introduction.

After understanding that losing the mother tongue, which in this case is the Mayan language, already mentioned above, would be a great loss not only for the places where this language is spoken, it would also be for the country, because it belongs to the set of all the languages ​​that are spoken in Mexico and that make up an important part that represents the great diverse culture that this same has, and without forgetting, which is a characteristic that represents the Mayan speakers. But at present, even taking into account all the actions done, there have been no results that can avoid the extinction of the Mayan language.

Developing.

According to studies made by INEG, only 27.5% of the Yucatecos speak Maya, but that much of the population that participated in the studies consider it important. This demonstrates the lack of interest in the Yucatecan people of their native language, although they consider it important, they do not dedicate too much importance when learning and knowing more about an important part of their culture. One of the main causes, which will be explained more deeply, is the mortality between the Mayan speakers, since the death of these prevents this language being present when taking it to themselves.

Another of one of the main causes is the disinterest on the part of young That people have attitudes related to education and have ideas such as: "Now even in schools Maya is taught, it is mandatory"; “If you go to a town, you need to know Maya; Of course, nobody deceives you ”; "But now even on TV they come out"; "That lady just because she knows the Maya comes out on TV, how dumb I was not learning the Mayan".

And another problem that has been too importance to the teaching of the foreign language, and the bad thing is not that schools teach that language, because it is important when seeking and getting jobs in the future of young people, The serious thing is that they take more importance to English than to the mother tongue, and a reason is mentioned above, since they can say that the Maya will not help you look for work, and that after all it does not go To serve nothing in the future.

But now we are going to enter into context in the these causes of the extinction of the mother tongue, in this case, the Maya, which were: mortality, disinterest and influence and importance to the foreign language.

It is believed that the word mortality can be used as a synonym for mortality, but in reality they are different and each one refers to different things, that there can be some relationship, since it can be said that one comes from the other. Since López (2014) mentioned that the word "mortality" refers to the death rate that happens in a period of time, and the word "mortality" means the number of deaths caused by a disaster or epidemic, according to the foundéu. The latter is one of the main causes of the loss of the Mayan language, since the people who have knowledge of this, if they do not pass it to the next generation, when they die, not only will they lose their tongue, but also will lose the opportunity to last that language.

In the health profile, not only the Mayan community, the majority of indigenous communities, have high mortality, both childish and in general, and a guide of several diseases where malnutrition, infections and parasitic diseases stand out, program Special of indigenous peoples.

According to the Special Program of Indigenous Peoples, he mentions that, according to WHO, the global disease load (GBD), with which diseases and causes of death of the indigenous population are classified, there are three large Groups:

1. Infectious, maternal, perinatal diseases and the problems derived from nutrition deficiency.
2. Non-communicable diseases.
3. Accidents and injuries.

Conclusions.

With this last fact we can give ourselves an idea of ​​the way in which the peoples where Mayan -speaking people live, and that are not the most favorable to survive, since they do not have the same resources as if they have people who live in a Urban area, and this exposes them to carrying infectious diseases and where they also have the necessary objects and medicines so that they can carry out a good treatment and cure these diseases.

 And it does not end there, due to the lack of food both in quantity and in good condition compared to urban areas, and this also causes infections and / or virus transmissions and even more extreme cases such as malnutrition. We must emphasize, that we are talking about mortality, that is, that this happens in a given time, in which we soon expect the end of this period full of differences and injustices because of the current government.