• The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages from the Quichean branch, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ communities...
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    Qʼeqchiʼ (redirect from Kekchí)
    Qʼeqchiʼ (/qʼeqt͡ʃiʔ/) (Kʼekchiʼ in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of...
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    Guatemala (category Articles containing Kekchí-language text)
    Outline of Guatemala /ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlə/ GWAH-tə-MAH-lə; Spanish: [ɡwateˈmala] ; Kekchí: Watemaal, Kaqchikel and K'iche': Iximulew, Mam: Twitz Paxil República de...
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    the last serious attack on the colony. In the 1880s and 1890s, Mopán and Kekchí Maya fled from forced labor in Guatemala and came to British Honduras. They...
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    people who speak other language as their mother tongue (main language, Kekchí with 12,300 speakers): Ethnologue Archived 7 February 2016 at the Wayback...
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    number about 34% of the population; unmixed Maya make up another 10.6% (Kekchi, Mopan, and Yucatec). The Garifuna, who came to Belize in the 19th century...
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    and Nahuatl of Mexico, with almost two million each; the Mayan languages Kekchi, Quiché, and Yucatec of Guatemala and Mexico, with about 1 million apiece;...
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    conflicts between tribes and with Europeans. They are divided into the Yucatec, Kekchi, and Mopan. These three Maya groups now inhabit the country. The Yucatec...
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    many of whom remain in the state. These have added ethnicities such as the Kekchi, Chuj, Ixil, Kanjobal, K'iche' and Cakchikel to the population. The Kanjobal...
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    Cobán (category Articles containing Kekchí-language text)
    Cobán (Kekchí: Kob'an), fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala. It also serves as the administrative...
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    Ocuiltec (Tlahuica) 1,759 522 Pima Bajo 1,540 836 Jacaltec (Abxubal) 1,478 584 Kekchí (K'ekchí) 987 835 Lacandon (Hach t'an) 896 731 Ixcatec 816 406 Seri (Comcáac)...
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    inhabitants. Spanish (official), Salvadoran Sign Language, Pipil (Nawat) , Kekchí. Immigrant languages include Chinese, Arabic, Poqomam, and American Sign...
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    between humankind and the game and crops. An ancestral hero - Xbalanque in a Kekchi tradition - changes into a hummingbird to woo the daughter of an Earth God...
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    some Mopan Maya. San Pedro Columbia has Belize's largest settlement of Kekchi. Most of the population came to Belize from the Petén region of Guatemala...
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    offshore cays. Toledo is home to a wide range of cultures such as Mopan, Kekchi Maya, Creole, Garifuna, East Indians, Mennonites, Mestizos, and descendants...
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    serious attack on the British colony. In the 1880s and 1890s, Mopan and Kekchí Maya fled from forced labor in Guatemala and settled in several villages...
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    subfamilies, are spoken in the Guatemalan highlands. Qʼeqchiʼ (sometimes spelled Kekchi), which constitutes its own sub-branch within Quichean–Mamean, is spoken...
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    beverage made from cacao was introduced to the Spanish court in 1544 by Kekchi Maya nobles brought from the New World to Spain by Dominican friars to meet...
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  • tribes were subdued through violence; Bartolomé de las Casas pacified the Kekchí in Alta Verapaz without bloodshed. After more than a century of colonisation...
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    List of Book of Mormon translations (category Articles containing Kekchí-language text)
    000 37 1982 Vietnamese Sách Mặc Môn Vietnam 96,000,000 38 1983 Q'eqchi' (Kekchi) Lix Hu Laj Mormon Belize, Guatemala First in a language native to the Americas...
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    Mexican mestizos immigrated during these years. In the 1870s-1880s, the Kekchi emigrated from Verapaz, Guatemala, where their lands had been seized for...
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  • Alveolar ejective affricate (category Articles containing Kekchí-language text)
    The alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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    northwestern Guatemala K'iche' (Quiché), El Salvador and Guatemala Kaqchikel Kekchi Mam Poqomam Tojolabales Tzotzil Tzeltal Tz'utujil Mazatec Mixtec Olmec Otomi...
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    his term, Laugerud was also faced with the consequences of a massacre of Kekchi Mayan demonstrators by the military in Panzós, in which the Army killed...
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    are spoken in Guatemala. The most significant are; Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna and Xinca. There are also significant numbers of German,...
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  • Chuj, Tojolabal, Cakchiquel, Tzutujil, Sacapultec, Pocomam, Pocomchí and Kekchi) the Otomanguean family (including Mezquital Otomi and Highland Otomi) the...
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  • Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel) Tzʼutujil Quiche–Achi: Kʼicheʼ (Quiché), Achiʼ Qʼeqchiʼ (Kekchi) Pokom: Poqomam, Poqomchiʼ Uspantek Sakapultek Sipakapense See Mayan languages#Eastern...
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    Awilix (category Articles containing Kekchí-language text)
    Awilix (/äwiˈliʃ/) (also spelt Ahuilix, Auilix and Avilix) was a goddess (or possibly a god) of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya, who had a large kingdom in...
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    Wilk R, Chapin M (September 1988). Ethnic Minorities in Belize: Mopan, Kekchi, and Garifuna (Report). Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development...
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    "Nutrient content of selected indigenous leafy vegetables consumed by the Kekchi people of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis...
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