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{{short description|Mexican linguist of Maya ethnicity|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Hilario Chi Canul
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1981|10|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tlaxiaco]], [[Oaxaca]], Mexico
| known_for   = [[Linguistics]], [[Mayan languages]], film work
| occupation  = Professor of Maya
}}
'''Hilario Chi Canul''' (born 16 October 1981) is a Mexican linguist of [[Maya peoples|Maya]] [[ethnicity]] who worked as a translator and [[Yucatec Maya language]] coach in the production of the 2006 movie ''[[Apocalypto]]'' by [[Mel Gibson]].
==Life==
In 2007 he won the first prize in the Mexican government's competition of indigenous language rhetoric.<ref>http://secqr.gob.mx/index.php/index.php/?option=com_content&task=view&id=196{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is Professor of Maya at the [[University of Quintana Roo]] (UQRoo). He has worked as Maya language narrator in a number of commercial, art, and educational films.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.osea-cite.org/about/ab_people.php#hilario|title = OSEA-CITE: Ethnography of the Future / Interdisciplinary Cultural Anthropology / Study Abroad}}</ref> He is also involved in the movement to revive Mexico's indigenous heritage.<ref>http://www.redui.org.mx/IMG/pdf/Hilario-Discurso-Xaltocan-2008.pdf{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He has given talks about his experience as a Maya translator working in the film industry at several American Universities.<ref>http://www.indiana.edu/~mlcp/working_groups/working_group8.php Report of a talk given by Chi Canul at [[Indiana University]]</ref> Chi Canul also served as producer and lead actor in the first ever Maya-language telenovia [[Baktun (telenovela)|Baktun]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Culture Clings to Its Reflection in a Cleaned-Up Soap Opera|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/americas/a-culture-clings-to-its-reflection-in-a-cleaned-up-soap-opera.html|accessdate=22 February 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 August 2013|author=Randal C. Archibold}}</ref>
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[[Category:Mexican people of Maya descent]]
[[Category:Linguists from Mexico]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1981 births]]
[[Category:People from Quintana Roo]]
[[Category:Mexican male telenovela actors]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Quintana Roo]]