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A Kʼicheʼ speaker. Kʼicheʼ ([kʼiˈtʃʰeʔ], also known as Qatzijobʼal lit. ' our language ' among its speakers), or Quiché (/ k iː ˈ tʃ eɪ / kee-CHAY [2]), is a Mayan language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people of the central highlands in Guatemala and Mexico.
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala, and is spoken by 93% of the population. [1] Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language.. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
Declared Guatemala's national hero in 1960, [21] Tecun Uman was the last of the K'iche' rulers. His death on February 20, 1524 [ 21 ] is memorialized each year by the Guatemalan people. This is done, in part, through the Dance of the Conquest, which tells the story of the natives' conversion to Christianity following the Spanish Conquest . [ 22 ]
Quiché has historically been one of the most populous departments of Guatemala. At the 2018 census it had a population of 949,261. [1] Mayans account for 88.6% of the department's population. [2] Kʼicheʼ people are the largest Mayan ethnic group in the department, and account for 65.1% of the total population. [2] The department is named ...
Cauqué Mayan (also known as Kaqchikel–Kʼicheʼ Mixed language) is a mixed language spoken in the aldea of Santa María Cauqué, Santiago Sacatepéquez, in the Department of Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. It is a Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) base relexified by Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel).
Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya; Kʼicheʼ language, a Maya language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people Classical Kʼicheʼ language, the 16th century form of the Kʼicheʼ language; Kʼicheʼ Kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, a pre-Columbian state in the Guatemalan highlands
The (Greater) Quichean languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Guatemala. Languages. Qichean proper Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel) Tzʼutujil; Quiche–Achi: ...
Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Mennonite, Maya religion, recent small communities of Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox in West Guatemala. [ 3 ] Qʼeqchiʼ ( /qʼeqt͡ʃiʔ/ ) (Kʼekchiʼ in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of Guatemala , Belize and Mexico .