(Xpujil, Campeche), XENKA-AM (Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo) and XEPET-AM (Peto, Yucatán). The 2006 film Apocalypto, directed by Mel Gibson, was filmed entirely in Yucatec Maya. The script was translated into Maya by Hilario Chi Canul of the Maya community of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, who also worked as a language coach on the production. In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Pacal, leader of the Maya, speaks in Yucatec Maya. In August 2012, the Mozilla Translathon 2012 event brought over 20 Yucatec Mayan speakers together in a localization effort for the Google Endangered Languages Project, the Mozilla browser, and the MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Baktun, the "first ever Mayan telenovela," premiered in August 2013. Jesús Pat Chablé is often credited with being one of the first Maya-language rappers and producers. In the 2018 video game Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the inhabitants of the game's Paititi region speak in Yucatec Maya (while immersion mode is on). The modern bible edition, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released in the Maya language in 2019. It's distributed without charge, both printed and online editions. On December 4, 2019, the Congress of Yucatán unanimously approved a measure requiring the teaching of the Maya language in schools in the state. Yucatec Maya is spoken by the fictional underwater kingdom of Talokan and its king in the 2022 film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. See also Yucatec Maya Sign Language References Sources Further reading Chamberlain, Robert S. The Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan, 1517-1550. Washington: Carnegie Institute, 1948. Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570, Sec. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Clendinnen, Inga. "Landscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture Under Spanish Conquest," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Cambridge University Press, 1980), 374–393. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. The History of the Conquest of New Spain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Ed. and Trans. David Carrasco. Farriss, Nancy M. Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Farriss, Nancy M. "Sacred Power in Colonial Mexico: The Case of Sixteenth Century Yucatan," The Meeting of Two Worlds: Europe and the Americas 1492–1650, Warwick Bray, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Garcia Bernal, Manuela Cristina. La Sociedad de Yucatán, 1700–1750. Seville: Escuela Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1972. Gibson,