References to the Itza as an ethnic group, with a distinct culture history and identity, begin in the Classic period (ad 250–900) in the Lake Petén Itzá region of Petén and in northern Yucatán and continue in ethnohistorical and historical documents to the present. People who communicate more with one another tend to speak more like one another over time, these differences in communicative interaction and identity lead to dialect and language differences. Language differences index differences in group identity. The Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family is diagramed in figure 4.1. 1 Mopan is spoken in southern Petén and the neighboring Maya Mountains region of Belize. Itzaj is spoken around Lake Petén–Itzá in Petén, Guatemala. Itzaj and Mopan are members of the Yukatekan branch of the Mayan language family.
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