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unusual facts about K'iche' language


Stephen G. McFarland

Mr. McFarland speaks fluent Spanish and some Guarani, and he is currently studying K'iche', the second most widely spoken language in Guatemala after Spanish.


Andrés Xiloj

Andrés Xiloj Peruch was a K'iche' daykeeper (K'iche': ajq'ij) from Momostenango in Guatemala.

Annals of the Cakchiquels

It also refers to the K'iche' rulers forcing the King Q'uicab the great to leave Chaiviar (Chichicastenango), and migrate to the Ratzamut mountains to found Iximché, which remained new Kaqchikel capital until the arrival of the conquistadores.

Art in Ruins

Art in Ruins, based in Bloomsbury, London, utilizes 1960s conceptual art strategies popularized by Art & Language and Gilbert and George.

Boscia senegalensis

Other common names include: aizen (Mauritania), mukheit (Arabic), hanza (Hausa), bere (Bambara), ngigili (Fulani), and mandiarha (Berber).

Burning of the Spanish Embassy

In January 1980 a group of K'iche' and Ixil peasant farmers organized a march to Guatemala City to protest the kidnapping and murder of peasants in Uspantán in El Quiché department by elements of the Guatemalan Army.

Classic Maya collapse

In the post-classic period following the collapse the state of Chichén Itzá built an empire that briefly united much of the Maya region, and centers such as Mayapán and Uxmal flourished, as did the Highland states of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya.

Dogs in Mesoamerica

In the Popol Vuh, the K'iche' Maya creation story, dogs played important roles in certain events.

Eastside Projects

Alongside group exhibitions that have featured artists and organisations such as Art & Language, Mel Bochner and Grizedale Arts, past solo shows include Liam Gillick, Shezad Dawood, Carey Young, William Pope.L and Dan Graham.

Fe'fe' language

In was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa, and Banjun).

Huastec

The Huastec (Wastek) language (also called Teenek) which is spoken by the above mentioned ethnic group.

Jacawitz

Jacawitz was one of a triad of K'iche' deities, the other two being Tohil and the goddess Awilix, all three were sometimes collectively referred to as Tohil, the principal member of the triad.

John Steckley

Steckley is reportedly the last known speaker of the Wyandot (or Huron) language, which he has studied for over thirty years.

K'iche'

K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj, a pre-Columbian state in the Guatemalan highlands

Maya Hero Twins

Many versions of the Twin Myth must have circulated among the Mayas, but the only one that survives in a written form is the Classical K'iche' version in the Popol Vuh.

The Maya Hero Twins are the central figures of a narrative included within the colonial K'iche' document called Popol Vuh, and constituting the oldest Maya myth to have been preserved in its entirety.

Nim Li Punit

Nim Li Punit is sometimes known as Big Hat or Top Hat; the name is Kekchi Maya language for "Big Hat", referring to the large elaborate head-dress on a stela sculpture found on site depicting one of the site's ancient kings.

Oxlahuh-Tz'i'

Oxlahuh-Tz'i' and Kablahuh-Tihax gained a victory over the K'iche' around 1491 when they captured the K'iche' kings Tepepul and Itzayul together with the idol of deity Tohil.

Peter Fuller

Originally a follower of writer John Berger, he moved to the political right in mid-life, coming into conflict with his former allies Art & Language.

Quiché Department

While most of its indigenous population speaks the K'iche' language, other Mayan languages spoken in the department are Ixil (Nebaj - Chajul - Cotzal area), Uspantek (Uspantán area), Sakapultek (Sacapulas area), as well as Poqomchi' and Q'ekchi in the North-Eastern part bordering with the Alta Verapaz department.

Rabinal

The town's annual fiesta patronal takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K'iche Maya, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural monument, known as The Rabinal Achí.

Robert M. Carmack

In particular he has conducted extensive research on the K'iche' (Quiché) Mayas of the Guatemalan Highlands in the context of the infiltration and migration of Nahuatl speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.

Santa Cruz del Quiché

Some think it likely that it was in Santa Cruz where a group of anonymous K'iche' nobles of the Nim Ch'okoj class transcribed the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya.

Su' language

The 1995 Attapeu census recorded a population of only 124 speakers in Sanamsay District.


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