Yucatecn.

1843 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Yucatan I. vi. 139 No native ever calls himself a Yucateco, but always a Macegual or native of the land of Maya.

1845 Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. I. 107 The Yucatecs differed materially from the Mexicans with regard to the time of the solar year.

1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. xxi. 675 So great was the horror in which the Yucatecs held this crime that they did not always wait for conviction,..but sometimes punished a suspected person.

1912 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 257 The better Yucatecos do not lean to this profession [of clergyman], which is unendowed.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 119 He was part-owner here with a yucateco who still believed in the Revolution.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 841 The Yucatec were the Classical Maya who were conquered by the Spanish and whose calendar, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing marked them as a highly civilized people.

1983 Word Ways Aug. 152 Originate in Yucatan and you are a Yucatec.

1940 F. Johnson in Maya & their Neighbors vi. 107 The divisions of the Yucatec-speaking Maya are relatively indistinct.

1954 J. E. S. Thompson Rise & Fall Maya Civilization i. 28 Yucatec is spoken by many whites and mestizos of Yucatán as a second language and is said to be easy to learn.

1977 Language 53 296 Tall people can be reclassified by one of the long classifiers in Bantu.., Japanese, and Yucatec.

1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. ii. xxi. 665 A Yucatec noble who wedded a woman of inferior degree, descended to her social level.

1934 A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 123 The Yucatec Society was apparently incorporated into the Mexic Society by conquest at about the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of the Christian Era.

1956 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 25 It is their speech which Vasquez..describes as ‘yucateco Spanish’, characterized by Mayan phonemes and Mayan phrases.

1975 Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/3 They spoke a dialect unlike the Yucatec Maya dialect heard generally throughout Yucatán; it was Chontal Maya, one of the dialects of the Cholan Maya group.

1983 Washington Post 13 July e–3/1 You can be sure that Yucatec farmers don't waste maize on their cows.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Oct. 1090/5 The Yucatec city of Chichen Itza.