what is the name of the mayan ball game
Mesoamerican ballgame The Mesoamerican ballgame is known by a wide variety of names. In English, is it often called pok-ta-pok (or pok-a-tok). This term originates from a 1932 article by Danish archaeologist Frans Blom, who adapted it from the Yucatec Maya word pokolpok.[6][7] In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, it was called ōllamaliztli ([oːlːamaˈlistɬi]) or tlachtli ([ˈtɬatʃtɬi]). In Classical Maya, it was known as pitz. In modern Spanish, it is called el juego de pelota maya ("the Maya ballgame"),[8] el juego de pelota mesoamericano ("the Mesoamerican ballgame"),[9] or simply pelota maya ("Maya ball").