Description

K'iche' Cantel New Testament

With Traditional Spelling

Ru Loqꞌ Pixabꞌ Ri Dios

Guatemala

quc (GT:quc:K'iche')

Cantel is a small municipality in the Quetzaltenango Department in Guatemala. It is located east of the city of Quetzaltenango and has an area of 22 km². The village of Cantel is situated at 2,370 m altitude. The population is 32,221 people.

Cantel includes the small Maya archaeological sites of Chojolom and Cerro Quiac.

Paperback: 462 pages
Publisher: Digital Bible Society (June 14, 2017) / Wycliffe Bible Translators
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1531305474
ISBN-13: 978-1531305475
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

K’iche’ ([kʼiˈtʃeʔ], also Qatzijob'al "our language" to its speakers), or Quiché (/kiːˈtʃeɪ/), is a Maya language of Guatemala, spoken by the K'iche' people of the central highlands. With over a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), K'iche' is the second-most widely spoken language in the country after Spanish. Most speakers of K'iche' languages also have at least a working knowledge of Spanish.

The Central dialect is the most commonly used in the media and education. The literacy rate is low, but K'iche' is increasingly taught in schools and used on radio. The most famous work in the Classical K'iche' language is the Popol Vuh (Popol Wu'uj in modern spelling).

Kaufman (1970) divides the K'iche' complex into the following five dialects, with the representative municipalities given as well (quoted in Par Sapón 2000:17).

East

West

Central

North

Cunén

South

K’iche’
Quiché
Qatzijob'al
Pronunciation	[kʼiˈtʃeʔ]
Native to	Guatemala
Region	Central highlands
Ethnicity	K'iche'
Native speakers	(2.3 million cited 1991–2000^[1])^[2]
Language family	Mayan Eastern (Quichean–Mamean) Greater Quichean Quichean Quiché–Achi K’iche’
Early form	Classical K'iche'
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Guatemala^[3]
Regulated by	Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`quc`
Glottolog	`kich1262`