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' 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. With over a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), Kʼicheʼ is the second most widely-spoken language in the country, after Spanish.
The exact origin of this mixed language's Kʼicheʼan grammatical base is not agreed upon, with some sources listing the Kʼicheʼ dialect of Joyabaj as having been the contributing grammar, [2] [3] while others state that the area of current-day city of Quetzaltenango is from where the original Santa María Cauqué founders and their ...
Quiché (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees".
Classical Kʼicheʼ was an ancestral form of today's Kʼicheʼ language (Quiché in the older Spanish-based orthography), which was spoken in the highland regions of Guatemala around the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
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 ]
In Guatemala, as throughout the Spanish empire, other musical compositions with Spanish lyrics included consisted sainetes, jácaras, tonadas, and cantatas. Authors of these poems, who also put their works to music, include Manuel José de Quirós (ca. 1765-1790), Pedro Nolasco Estrada Aristondo , Pedro Antonio Rojas , and Rafael Antonio ...
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