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  2. List of Guatemalans - Wikipedia

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    Foreign minister of Guatemala from 1966 to 1969 and the president of the United Nations Twenty-Third General Assembly from 1968 to 1969. Arévalo, Juan José, first democratically elected president; Arjona, Ricardo, international singer; Asturias, Miguel Ángel, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1967)

  3. Languages of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Notes Spanish: Indo-European: Romance: 9,481,907 54.9254: Although Spanish is the official language, it is not spoken by the entire population, or else is used as a second language. There are twenty-four distinct indigenous languages spoken in Guatemala. Kʼicheʼ: Mayan: Kiche' 1,000,000 5.7927

  4. Qʼeqchiʼ - Wikipedia

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    The Q'eqchi' originally came from a large recorded migration that started from central Mexico towards the Guatemalan highlands, where they settled and developed as a sedentary society characterized by the cultivation of corn, specifically, it was in the present-day department of Alta Verapaz where they had their pre-Hispanic development.

  5. History of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin , located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.

  6. Mesoamerican languages - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the history of Mesoamerica, an unknown number of languages and language families became extinct and left behind no evidence of their existence. What is known about the pre-Columbian history of the Mesoamerican languages is what can be surmised from linguistic, archeological and ethnohistorical evidence. Often, hypotheses concerning ...

  7. Xinca people - Wikipedia

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    Their languages (the Xincan languages) are not known to be related to any other language family, [2] although they have many loan words from Mayan languages. [3] The Xinka may have been among the earliest inhabitants of southeastern Guatemala, predating the arrival of the Maya and the Pipil. [2]

  8. Chuj language - Wikipedia

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    Art with text in Chuj. Chuj is a Mayan language spoken by around 40,000 members of the Chuj people in Guatemala and around 3,000 members in Mexico.Chuj is a member of the Qʼanjobʼalan branch along with the languages of Tojolabʼal, Qʼanjobʼal, Akateko, Poptiʼ, and Mochoʼ which, together with the Chʼolan branch, Chuj forms the Western branch of the Mayan family.

  9. Indigenous peoples in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous peoples in Guatemala, also known as Native Guatemalans, are the original inhabitants of Guatemala, predating Spanish colonization.Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan peoples (Achi’, Akatec, Awakatec, Chalchitec, Ch’ortí, Chuj, Itzá, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kaq- chikel, K’iche, Mam, Mopan, Poqomam, Poqomchí, Q’anjob ...