• The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages from the Quichean branch, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ communities...
    31 KB (2,562 words) - 23:33, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qʼeqchiʼ
    Qʼeqchiʼ (redirect from Kʼekchi)
    Qʼeqchiʼ (/qʼeqt͡ʃiʔ/) (Kʼekchiʼ in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of...
    13 KB (1,412 words) - 18:02, 11 April 2024
  • Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel) Tzʼutujil Quiche–Achi: Kʼicheʼ (Quiché), Achiʼ Qʼeqchiʼ (Kekchi) Pokom: Poqomam, Poqomchiʼ Uspantek Sakapultek Sipakapense See Mayan languages#Eastern...
    1 KB (43 words) - 02:12, 3 March 2021
  • Thumbnail for Maya peoples
    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...
    43 KB (4,994 words) - 23:36, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indigenous languages of the Americas
    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;...
    108 KB (6,964 words) - 20:43, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish language
    people who speak other language as their mother tongue (main language, Kekchí with 12,300 speakers): Ethnologue Archived 7 February 2016 at the Wayback...
    227 KB (16,234 words) - 07:00, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Honduras
    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...
    47 KB (6,175 words) - 15:40, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for San Pedro Columbia
    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...
    3 KB (159 words) - 04:05, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    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...
    223 KB (23,352 words) - 23:29, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard R. Wilk
    dissertation research in southern Belize describing the ecological strategies of Kekchi speakers in and around the village of Aguacate. His dissertation was later...
    4 KB (304 words) - 18:28, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maya mythology
    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...
    23 KB (3,423 words) - 20:08, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caribbean Community
    (Karif) Kapóng Macushi Mawayana (Mapidian) Mopan Pemon (Arekuna) Qʼeqchiʼ (Kʼekchi) Sikiana (Kashuyana) Tiriyó Yucatec Waiwai Wapishana Warao (Guarauno) Wayana...
    68 KB (4,046 words) - 05:09, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hispanic and Latin American Belizean
    Mexican mestizos immigrated during these years. In the 1870s-1880s, the Kekchi emigrated from Verapaz, Guatemala, where their lands had been seized for...
    15 KB (1,470 words) - 21:44, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chiapas
    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...
    198 KB (23,219 words) - 07:19, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cobán
    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...
    29 KB (2,621 words) - 14:44, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Belize
    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...
    46 KB (6,108 words) - 06:12, 13 April 2024
  • king. Ethnographically, Mam refers to several aged Maya deities: (i) In Kekchi-speaking Belize, 'Mam' is a general designation for the mountain spirits;...
    3 KB (384 words) - 07:18, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Indigenous peoples of Mexico
    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)...
    110 KB (9,589 words) - 06:45, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Toledo District
    offshore cays. Toledo is home to a wide range of cultures such as Mopan, Kekchi Maya, Creole, Garifuna, East Indians, Mennonites, Mestizos, and descendants...
    11 KB (917 words) - 20:42, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salvadorans
    inhabitants. Spanish (official), Salvadoran Sign Language, Pipil (Nawat) , Kekchí. Immigrant languages include Chinese, Arabic, Poqomam, and American Sign...
    55 KB (5,192 words) - 10:52, 30 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mayan languages
    subfamilies, are spoken in the Guatemalan highlands. Qʼeqchiʼ (sometimes spelled Kekchi), which constitutes its own sub-branch within Quichean–Mamean, is spoken...
    94 KB (9,280 words) - 19:40, 21 February 2024
  • Chuj, Tojolabal, Cakchiquel, Tzutujil, Sacapultec, Pocomam, Pocomchí and Kekchi) the Otomanguean family (including Mezquital Otomi and Highland Otomi) the...
    48 KB (5,642 words) - 13:31, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García
    his term, Laugerud was also faced with the consequences of a massacre of Kekchi Indians by the military in Panzós, in which the Army killed 53 unarmed civilians...
    7 KB (487 words) - 14:20, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theobroma cacao
    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...
    44 KB (4,470 words) - 18:17, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dahlia imperialis
    "Nutrient content of selected indigenous leafy vegetables consumed by the Kekchi people of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis...
    5 KB (562 words) - 05:49, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nim Li Punit
    Creek. Nim Li Punit is sometimes known as Big Hat or Top Hat; the name is Kekchi Maya for "Big Hat", referring to the large elaborate head-dress on a stela...
    14 KB (1,562 words) - 14:56, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Demographics of Guatemala
    are spoken in Guatemala. The most significant are; Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna and Xinca. There are also significant numbers of German,...
    57 KB (2,868 words) - 08:27, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maya Americans
    dialects and languages. Some speak Spanish and others speak Mam, Yucatec, Kekchi, or other languages. Processing of their immigration papers is more difficult...
    23 KB (2,791 words) - 12:37, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mopan Territory
    Wilk R, Chapin M (September 1988). Ethnic Minorities in Belize: Mopan, Kekchi, and Garifuna (Report). Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development...
    29 KB (1,935 words) - 16:48, 6 April 2024
  • species: Heteroschizomus goodnightorum Rowland, 1973 – Mexico Heteroschizomus kekchi Monjaraz-Ruedas, Prendini & Francke, 2019 – Guatemala Heteroschizomus orthoplax...
    1 KB (99 words) - 22:56, 17 September 2022