Sakapultek people
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The Sakapultek are a
Maya people The Maya peoples () are an ethnolinguistic group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people ...
in Guatemala, located in the municipality of
Sacapulas Sacapulas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. History Pre Hispanic era Worried about the defection of the aj K’ub’ul family chief -who had taken his family away in order to look for fertile and, above ...
. The
Sakapultek language Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a Mayan language very closely related to Kʼicheʼ (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Sacapulas, El Quiché department and in Guatemala City Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), know ...
is closely related to
K'iche' K'iche', K'ichee', or Quiché may refer to: * K'iche' people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya *K'iche' language, a Maya language spoken by the K'iche' people **Classical K'iche' language, the 16th century form of the K'iche' language *Kʼicheʼ ...
.See Gordon (2005):


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* * Indigenous peoples in Guatemala Maya peoples of Guatemala Mesoamerican cultures {{NorthAm-native-stub