Mesoamerican languages: Difference between revisions

'''Mesoamerican languages''' are the [[language]]s [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] to the [[Mesoamerica]]n cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]], [[El Salvador]], and parts of [[Honduras]], and parts of [[Nicaragua]] and [[Costa Rica]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resource-library-mesoamerica/|title= Mesoamerica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/beginners-guide-art-of-the-americas/mesoamerica-beginner/a/mesoamerica-an-introduction|title= Mesoamerica an introduction}}</ref> The area is characterized by extensive linguistic diversity containing several hundred different languages and seven major language families. Mesoamerica is also an area of high linguistic [[diffusion]] in that long-term interaction among speakers of different languages through several millennia has resulted in the convergence of certain linguistic traits across disparate language families. The Mesoamerican [[sprachbund]] is commonly referred to as the [[Mesoamerican Linguistic Area]].