Maria Bittner's text studies: Online update for Yukatek Maya
Yukatek (Maya: Yukatán, Mexico).
Tenseless, mildly synthetic, rich inflection, head-marking, head-initial, VOS basic order.
Myth.
"Little Rabbit in the Cave". Mayan myth, recorded in D. & A. Bolles, 1996, A Grammar of the Yucatecan Mayan Language.

[text]
§1. Hunted Rabbit finds a cave [ou 4/24/05].
§2. Hunter wants to shoot Rabbit [ou 4/24/05].
§3. …But Rabbit is holding up the cave [ou].
§4. Hunter sees the problem [ou].
§5. Rabbit proposes a solution [ou].
§6. …And fools Hunter [ou].

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