Kʼicheʼ ([kʼiˈtʃʰeʔ], also known as Qatzijobʼal lit. 'our language' among its speakers), or Quiché (/kiːˈtʃeɪ/ kee-CHAY), is a Mayan language spoken by...
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Maya peoples. The eponymous Kʼicheʼ language is a Mesoamerican language in the Mayan language family. The highland Kʼicheʼ states in the pre-Columbian...
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The Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj was a state in the highlands of modern-day Guatemala which was founded by the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) Maya in the thirteenth...
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Popol Vuh (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
Vuh or Pop Vuj) is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican...
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the Kʼicheʼ language. In Mesoamerica generally, the bat is often associated with night, death, and sacrifice. Camazotz is formed from the Kʼicheʼ words...
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Classical Kʼicheʼ was an ancestral form of today's Kʼicheʼ language (Quiché in the older Spanish-based orthography), which was spoken in the highland...
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Kʼicheʼ, Kʼicheʼe', or Quiché may refer to: Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya Kʼicheʼ language, a Maya language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ...
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Q'anjob'al language, Jakaltek, Motozintlec, Akatek language Quichean–Mamean branch: Mam language, Tektitek language, Ixil, Kʼicheʼ language, Kaqchikel...
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Human sacrifice in Maya culture (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
texts, including the Madrid Codex, the Kʼicheʼ epic Popol Vuh, the Kʼicheʼ Título de Totonicapán, the Kʼicheʼ language Rabinal Achi, the Annals of the Kaqchikels...
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Cauqué Mayan (also known as Kaqchikel–Kʼicheʼ Mixed language) is a mixed language spoken in the aldea of Santa María Cauqué, Santiago Sacatepéquez, in...
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Maya Hero Twins (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
entirety. Called Hunahpu [hunaxˈpu] and Xbalanque [ʃɓalaŋˈke] in the Kʼicheʼ language, the Twins have also been identified in the art of the Classic Mayas...
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Americas. Mayan languages are the descendants of a proto-language called Proto-Mayan or, in Kʼicheʼ Maya, Nabʼee Mayaʼ Tzij ("the old Maya Language"). The Proto-Mayan...
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An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. The tag structure has been standardized by...
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that belongs to a "sign language complex" known locally in the Kʼicheʼ language as Meemul Chʼaabʼal and Meemul Tziij, "mute language." Researcher Erich Fox...
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Kʼicheʼ, Kʼicheeʼ or Quiché may refer to: Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya Kʼicheʼ language, a Maya language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ...
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Santa María (volcano) (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
of the Sierra Madre. The volcano was known as Gagxanul in the local Kʼicheʼ language, which means "Naked Volcano or Mountain", before the 16th century Spanish...
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Maya peoples (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Popol Vuh is the most significant work of Guatemalan literature in the Kʼicheʼ language, and one of the most important works of Pre-Columbian American literature...
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construction), cf. his genitive in some Germanic languages. For example, in the Kʼicheʼ language, a Mayan language, u-tzi' le achih "the man's dog" literally...
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Vucub Caquix (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
Vucub-Caquix (K'iche': Wuqub’ Kaqix, [ʋuˈquɓ kaˈqiʃ], possibly meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of a Kʼicheʼ-Maya...
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Xibalba (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
Anthropologist Dennis Tedlock has speculated that this version of history may be a Kʼicheʼ slander on earlier Mayan forms of worship. The role of Xibalba and its...
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Pupusa (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
meaning "good sphere", however, the term poputz does not appear in any K'iche' language dictionaries. El Salvador and Honduras both claim to be the birthplace...
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Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (category Articles with K'iche'-language sources (quc))
Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Quiché (Kʼicheʼ) Maya people. He included a grammar of the Kʼicheʼ language and an essay on Central American mythology...
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New Bedford, Massachusetts (section Kʼicheʼ community)
courts that the New Bedford School District was not providing adequate Kʼicheʼ language services. The U.S. Department of Justice and the school district came...
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Título de Totonicapán (category K'iche')
Totonicapán ("Title of the Lords of Totonicapán") is the name given to a Kʼicheʼ language document written around 1554 in Guatemala. The Título de Totonicapán...
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Cuatrillo (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the Kʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography: ꜭiche. Tresillo Uocabulario copioso de las...
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Niguala, Niuala, and Navala. Nahualá or Nawala' is also the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) language name for the Nahualate River, which is called Niwala' in the local...
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Tepeu (category K'iche')
Tepeu is a word of the Kʼicheʼ Maya language meaning "sovereign" (also "one who conquers" or "one who is victorious"). The title is associated with the...
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Rabinal Achí (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
The Rabinal Achí is a Maya theatrical play written in the Kʼicheʼ language and performed annually in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Its original name...
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Qʼumarkaj (category Articles containing K'iche'-language text)
Qʼumarkaj (Kʼicheʼ: [qʼumarˈkaχ]) (sometimes rendered as Gumarkaaj, Gumarcaj, Cumarcaj or Kumarcaaj) is an archaeological site in the southwest of the...
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16th-century Inca Empire) Classical Kʼicheʼ (a Mayan language of 16th-century Guatemala) Classical Tupi (language of 16th to 18th centuries Brazil) Awadhi...
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