Grenoble & Whaley (1998) characterized the situation this way: "Mayan languages typically have several hundreds of thousands of speakers, and a majority of Mayas speak a Mayan language as a first language. The driving concern of Maya communities is not to revitalize their language but to buttress it against the increasingly rapid spread of Spanish ... [rather than being] at the end of a process of language shift, [Mayan languages are] ... at the beginning."Grenoble & Whaley (1998, pp. xi–xii) Grenoble, Lenore A.; Whaley, Lindsay J. (1998). "Preface"(PDF). In Lenore A. Grenoble; Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.). Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects. Cambridge University Press. pp. xi–xii. ISBN0-521-59102-3.
Lyle Campbell (1997) refers to studies by Norman and Campbell ((1978) "Toward a proto-Mayan syntax: a comparative perspective on grammar", in Papers in Mayan Linguistics, ed. Nora C. England, pp. 136–56. Columbia: Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri) and by England (1991). England, N. C. (1991). "Changes in basic word order in Mayan languages". International Journal of American Linguistics. 57 (4): 446–486. doi:10.1086/ijal.57.4.3519735. S2CID146516836.
Mora-Marín 2009. Mora-Marín, David (2009). "A Test and Falsification of the 'Classic Chʼoltiʼan' Hypothesis: A Study of Three Proto Chʼolan Markers". International Journal of American Linguistics. 75 (2): 115–157. doi:10.1086/596592. S2CID145216002.
Mora-Marín 2016. Mora-Marín, David (2016). "Testing the Proto-Mayan-Mije-Sokean Hypothesis". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (2): 125–180. doi:10.1086/685900. S2CID147269181.
Law 2013. Law, D. (2013). "Mayan historical linguistics in a new age". Language and Linguistics Compass. 7 (3): 141–156. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12012.
Robertson 1977. Robertson, John (1977). "Proposed revision in Mayan subgrouping". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (2): 105–120. doi:10.1086/465466. S2CID143665564.
Solá 2011. Solá, J. O. (2011). "The origins and formation of the Latino community in Northeast Ohio, 1900 to 2009". Ohio History. 118 (1): 112–129. doi:10.1353/ohh.2011.0014. S2CID145103773.
Popkin 2005. Popkin, E (2005). "The emergence of pan-Mayan ethnicity in the Guatemalan transnational community linking Santa Eulalia and Los Angeles". Current Sociology. 53 (4): 675–706. doi:10.1177/0011392105052721. S2CID143851930.
Maxwell 2015. Maxwell, Judith M. (2015). "Change in Literacy and Literature in Highland Guatemala, Precontact to Present". Ethnohistory. 62 (3): 553–572. doi:10.1215/00141801-2890234.
The Ethnologue considers the dialects spoken in Cubulco and Rabinal to be distinct languages, two of the eight languages of a Quiché-Achi family. Raymond G., Gordon Jr. (ed.). Ethnologue, (2005). Language Family Tree for Mayan, accessed March 26, 2007.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charl47547es D. Fennig (eds.). "Tzeltal" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), (2005). Gordon (2005) recognizes Eastern and Western dialects of Jakaltek, as well as Mochoʼ (also called Mototzintlec), a language with less than 200 speakers in the Chiapan villages of Tuzantán and Mototzintla.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Akateko" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Sakapulteko" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Sipakapense" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Poqomam" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Maya, Yucatec" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). "Lacandon" Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition, (2015). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
"Humberto Ak´abal" (in Spanish). Guatemala Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. March 26, 2007. Archived from the original on February 14, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
Lyle Campbell (1997) refers to studies by Norman and Campbell ((1978) "Toward a proto-Mayan syntax: a comparative perspective on grammar", in Papers in Mayan Linguistics, ed. Nora C. England, pp. 136–56. Columbia: Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri) and by England (1991). England, N. C. (1991). "Changes in basic word order in Mayan languages". International Journal of American Linguistics. 57 (4): 446–486. doi:10.1086/ijal.57.4.3519735. S2CID146516836.
Mora-Marín 2009. Mora-Marín, David (2009). "A Test and Falsification of the 'Classic Chʼoltiʼan' Hypothesis: A Study of Three Proto Chʼolan Markers". International Journal of American Linguistics. 75 (2): 115–157. doi:10.1086/596592. S2CID145216002.
Mora-Marín 2016. Mora-Marín, David (2016). "Testing the Proto-Mayan-Mije-Sokean Hypothesis". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (2): 125–180. doi:10.1086/685900. S2CID147269181.
Robertson 1977. Robertson, John (1977). "Proposed revision in Mayan subgrouping". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (2): 105–120. doi:10.1086/465466. S2CID143665564.
Solá 2011. Solá, J. O. (2011). "The origins and formation of the Latino community in Northeast Ohio, 1900 to 2009". Ohio History. 118 (1): 112–129. doi:10.1353/ohh.2011.0014. S2CID145103773.
Popkin 2005. Popkin, E (2005). "The emergence of pan-Mayan ethnicity in the Guatemalan transnational community linking Santa Eulalia and Los Angeles". Current Sociology. 53 (4): 675–706. doi:10.1177/0011392105052721. S2CID143851930.
Choi (2002) writes: "In the recent Maya cultural activism, maintenance of Mayan languages has been promoted in an attempt to support 'unified Maya identity'. However, there is a complex array of perceptions about Mayan language and identity among Maya who I researched in Momostenango, a highland Maya community in Guatemala. On the one hand, Maya denigrate Kʼicheʼ and have doubts about its potential to continue as a viable language because the command of Spanish is an economic and political necessity. On the other hand, they do recognize the value of Mayan language when they wish to claim the 'authentic Maya identity'. It is this conflation of conflicting and ambivalent ideologies that inform language choice..." Choi, Jinsook (2002). The Role of Language in Ideological Construction of Mayan Identities in Guatemala(PDF). Texas Linguistic Forum 45: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society—Austin, April 12–14. pp. 22–31. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2007-03-19.
Choi (2002) writes: "In the recent Maya cultural activism, maintenance of Mayan languages has been promoted in an attempt to support 'unified Maya identity'. However, there is a complex array of perceptions about Mayan language and identity among Maya who I researched in Momostenango, a highland Maya community in Guatemala. On the one hand, Maya denigrate Kʼicheʼ and have doubts about its potential to continue as a viable language because the command of Spanish is an economic and political necessity. On the other hand, they do recognize the value of Mayan language when they wish to claim the 'authentic Maya identity'. It is this conflation of conflicting and ambivalent ideologies that inform language choice..." Choi, Jinsook (2002). The Role of Language in Ideological Construction of Mayan Identities in Guatemala(PDF). Texas Linguistic Forum 45: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society—Austin, April 12–14. pp. 22–31. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2007-03-19.
"Humberto Ak´abal" (in Spanish). Guatemala Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. March 26, 2007. Archived from the original on February 14, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-23.