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Kʼicheʼ (other)
Kʼicheʼ, Kʼicheeʼ or Quiché may refer to: *Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala and Mexico, a subgroup of the Maya *Kʼicheʼ language, a Maya language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people ** Classical Kʼicheʼ, the 16th century form of the Kʼicheʼ language *Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj 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 century, and which expanded through the fifteenth century until it was conquered by Span ..., a pre-Columbian state in the Guatemalan highlands See also * Quiche (other) {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Kʼicheʼ People
Kʼicheʼ (pronounced ; previous Spanish spelling: ) are Indigenous peoples of the Americas and are one of the Maya peoples. The eponymous Kʼicheʼ language is a Mesoamerican languages, Mesoamerican language in the Mayan languages, Mayan language family. The highland Kʼicheʼ states in the pre-Columbian era are associated with the ancient Maya civilization, and reached the peak of their power and influence during the Mayan Postclassic period (–1539 AD). The meaning of the word in the Kʼicheʼ language is "many trees". The Nahuatl translation, "Place of the Many Trees (People)", is the origin of the word ''Guatemala''. Quiché Department is also named after them. Rigoberta Menchú, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, an activist for Indigenous rights who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, is perhaps the best-known Kʼicheʼ person. People According to the 2011 census, Kʼicheʼ people constituted 11% of the Guatemalan population, accounting for 1,610,013 people out of a total of 14, ...
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Kʼicheʼ Language
Kʼicheʼ ( ; natively , also known as among its speakers), or Quiché, 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 language, Spanish. It is one of the most widely-spoken Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous American languages in Mesoamerica. The Central dialect is the most commonly used in media and education. Despite a low literacy rate, Kʼicheʼ is increasingly taught in schools and used on the radio. The most famous work in the Classical Kʼicheʼ language is the ''Popol Vuh'' (''Popol Wuʼuj'' in modern spelling). The second most important work is ''Título de Totonicapán, The Title of Totonicapán.'' Dialects Kaufman (1970) divides the Kʼicheʼ complex into the following five dialects, with the representative municipalities given as well (quoted in Par S ...
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Classical Kʼicheʼ
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. Classical Kʼicheʼ has been preserved in a number of historical Mesoamerican documents, lineage histories, missionary texts, and dictionaries. Most famously, it is the language in which the renowned highland Maya mythological and historical narrative ''Popol Vuh'' (or ''Popol Wuj'' in modern orthography) is written. Another historical text of partly similar content is the Título de Totonicapán. Phonology The details of the phonology of Classical Kʼicheʼ are uncertain, since the Spanish-based writing system expressed it poorly, and one needs to use the most archaic modern dialects to reconstruct the likely pronunciation. A probable phonemic inventory as preserved in archaic Kʼicheʼ dialects is: Note that most of the glottalise ...
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Kʼicheʼ Kingdom Of Qʼumarkaj
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 century, and which expanded through the fifteenth century until it was conquered by Spanish and Nahua forces led by Pedro de Alvarado in 1524. The Kʼicheʼ kingdom reached its height under the king Kʼiqʼab who ruled from the fortified town of Qʼumarkaj (also called by its Nahuatl name Utatlán) near the modern town of Santa Cruz del Quiché. During his rule the Kʼicheʼ ruled large areas of highland Guatemala extending into Mexico, and they subdued other Maya peoples such as the Tzʼutujil, Kaqchikel and Mam, as well as the Nahuan Pipil people. Historical sources The history of the Quiché Kingdom is described in a number of documents written in postcolonial times both in Spanish and in indigenous languages such as Classical Kʼicheʼ and Kaqchikel. Important sources include the Popol Vuh which, apart from t ...
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Quiche (other)
Quiche consists of a pastry crust filled with savoury custard and pieces of cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables. Quiche or Quiches may also refer to: * Kʼicheʼ (other), or Quiché, several uses * Quiché Department, in Guatemala ** Quiché Airport, Santa Cruz del Quiché * Quiches District, in Peru * Quiche, a ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' character * Quiche Lorraine, a minor character in ''Bloom County'' comic strip See also * Chiché (other) Chiché or Chiche may refer to: Places * Chiché, Guatemala, a municipality in the department of El Quiché * Chiché, Deux-Sèvres, a commune in France People * Diego "Chiche" Soñora, Argentinian soccer player * Guillaume Chiche Guilla ...
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