Southern Kʼicheʼ

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Southern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the southern highlands of Guatemala.

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Label Occurrences
Southern Kʼicheʼ canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
coexistsWith Spanish in Guatemala
country Guatemala
hasAlignment ergative–absolutive alignment
hasAncestor Proto-Kʼichean language NERFINISHED
Proto-Mayan language NERFINISHED
Proto-Quichean–Mamean language NERFINISHED
hasContactLanguage Spanish NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community communication
local markets
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasEthnicity Kʼicheʼ Maya NERFINISHED
hasGlottocodeOfParentLanguage kich1262
hasISO639_3CodeOfParentLanguage quc
hasLanguageFamily Mayan languages
hasLinguisticFeature complex aspect and status marking on verbs
productive derivational morphology
rich verbal morphology
set A and set B person markers
hasMorphologyType head-marking language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective stops
glottalized consonants
uvular consonants
hasStatus indigenous language of Guatemala
hasSubfamily Quichean–Mamean languages
hasSubgroup Kʼichean languages NERFINISHED
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasWordOrder VOS
VSO
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other regional varieties of Kʼicheʼ
isRecognizedAs variety within standardized Kʼicheʼ
isVarietyOf Kʼicheʼ NERFINISHED
languageFamily Mayan
partOf Kʼicheʼ language NERFINISHED
region southern Guatemalan highlands NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kʼicheʼ Maya people NERFINISHED
indigenous communities in Guatemala
spokenIn Guatemala NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion southern highlands of Guatemala
subgroupOf Kʼicheʼ language NERFINISHED
usedIn local community life
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
usesScript Latin alphabet
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Kʼicheʼ hasDialect Southern Kʼicheʼ