Kiche

E428477

Kiche is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the Guatemalan highlands by the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the largest Indigenous groups in Mesoamerica.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kiche canonical 4
Kich 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alignmentType ergative–absolutive ⓘ
alternateName Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Quiché ⓘ
basicWordOrder VOS ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Kaqchikel ⓘ
Tzʼutujil ⓘ
linked to: Tzʼutujil Maya

Uspantek ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
countryOfficialStatus recognized indigenous language of Guatemala ⓘ
ethnicGroup Kʼicheʼ people ⓘ
glottocode kiche1248 ⓘ
hasDialects Central Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Eastern Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Northern Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Southern Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Western Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect-marking on verbs ⓘ
person-marking on verbs ⓘ
status suffixes on verbs ⓘ
hasImportantText Popol Vuh ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalized consonants ⓘ
vowel length distinctions in some dialects ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticStatus major indigenous language of Guatemala ⓘ
historicalScript Latin-based colonial orthographies ⓘ
iso639-1Code none ⓘ
iso639-2Code quc ⓘ
isPartOf Mayan linguistic area ⓘ
languageBranch Core Quichean ⓘ
linked to: Quichean–Mamean
languageFamily Mayan languages ⓘ
macroRegion Mesoamerica ⓘ
morphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
primaryRegion Guatemalan highlands ⓘ
linked to: Guatemala Highlands
regionType highland Mayan language ⓘ
spokenBy Kʼicheʼ people ⓘ
spokenIn Guatemala ⓘ
standardOrthographyDevelopedBy Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ
subfamily Quichean languages ⓘ
usedIn bilingual education in Guatemala ⓘ
community radio broadcasting ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kʼicheʼ → alternateName → Kiche ⓘ
White Fang → hasCharacter → Kiche ⓘ
Kizh → hasEthnonymVariant → Kich ⓘ
linked to: Kiche
Gray Beaver → owns → Kiche ⓘ
Kizh → hasVariantName → Kich ⓘ
linked to: Kiche