Cakchiquel language
| Kaqchikel | ||
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Spoken in |
Guatemala | |
| speaker | 500,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) myn (all Maya) | ( T ) - |
The Cakchiquel language (Spanish) or Kaqchikel (own name) is the language of the indigenous people of the Cakchiquel in Guatemala and one of the most widely spoken Mayan languages with around half a million speakers .
distribution
The Cakchiquel-speaking area covers large parts of the highlands of Guatemala, particularly in the departments of Chimaltenango , Sololá and Sacatepéquez . Aside from a few remote areas, most cakchiquel speakers also have some command of Spanish .
Cakchiquel is closely related to the Quiché language , but has some quite different dialects of its own , which some experts, in particular the Summer Institute of Linguistics ( SIL International ) consider to be their own languages.
In the 2002 census, 444,954 (4.3%) said Kaqchikel was their mother tongue; 832,968 (7.4%) called themselves kaqchicles .
Literary tradition
The annals of the Cakchiquel (Los Anales de los Cakchiqueles, also Anales de los Xahil, Memorial de Tecpán-Atitlán or Memorial de Sololá) have come down to us from the colonial period , written by members of the Xahil family , including Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá (from 1560 to 1583) and his grandson Francisco Rojas (from 1583 to 1604). It tells the story and mythology of the Cakchiquel.
literature
- Alfredo Herbruger, Eduardo Díaz Barrios: Metodo para aprender a hablar, leer y escribir la lengua Cakchiquel , Guatemala, CA 1956.
Web links
- Project Gutenberg: Original text from the Annals of the Cakchiquel with English translation by Daniel G. Brinton
- Annals of the Cakchiquels , Daniel G. Brinton in Guatemala, Cradle of the Maya Civilization
- Memorial de Sololá Part of the Memorial de Sololá in Spanish, Página de Literatura Guatemalteca .
Individual evidence
- ↑ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.
- ↑ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.