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Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize
Qʼeqchiʼ
Kekchi
Q'eqchi'
Native toGuatemala,Belize,Mexico
RegionAlta Verapaz,Petén,Izabal,Baja Verapaz,El Quiché;Toledo;Campeche,Quintana Roo,Chiapas
EthnicityQʼeqchiʼ
Native speakers
1.3 million (2019 census)[1]
Mayan
Dialects
  • Western
  • Eastern
Latin
Official status
Official language in
Guatemala[2]
Mexico
Regulated byInstituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
Academía de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3kek
Glottologkekc1242
ELPQ'eqchi'
Map of Mayan languages. Qʼeqchiʼ is in pink, at the lower-center part of the map.
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TheQʼeqchiʼ language, also spelledKekchi,Kʼekchiʼ, orKekchí, is one of theMayan languages from theQuichean branch, spoken withinQʼeqchiʼ communities inMexico,Guatemala andBelize.[3]

Distribution

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The area where Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken spreads across northern Guatemala into southern Belize. There are also Qʼeqchiʼ speaking communities in Mexico.

In Mexico, Q'eqchi' is spoken in the states ofCampeche,Quintana Roo andChiapas, mainly in the communities of Quetzal-Etzná and Los Laureles, in theCampeche Municipality and in Maya Tecun II andSanto Domingo Kesté in theChampotón Municipality, state ofCampeche.[4]

It was calculated that the core of the Qʼeqchiʼ-speaking area in northern Guatemala extends over 24,662 square kilometers[5] (about 9,522 square miles). Thedepartments and specific municipalities where Qʼeqchiʼ is regularly spoken in Guatemala include:[5]

DepartmentMunicipalities where Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken
Alta VerapazChahal, Chisec, Cobán, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Lanquín, Panzós, Chamelco, Carchá, Cahabón, Senahú, Tucurú
Baja VerapazPurulhá
PeténLa Libertad, Poptún, San Luis, Sayaxché
QuichéIxcán, Playa Grande, Uspantán
IzabalEl Estor, Livingston, Morales

In the country ofBelize, Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken in theToledo District.[5] Qʼeqchiʼ is the first language of many communities in the district, and the majority of Maya in Toledo speak it.

Terrence Kaufman described Qʼeqchiʼ as having two principal dialect groups: the eastern and the western. The eastern group includes the varieties spoken in the municipalities of Lanquín, Chahal, Chahabón and Senahú, and the western group is spoken everywhere else.[6]

Phonology

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Below are the Qʼeqchiʼphonemes, represented with theInternational Phonetic Alphabet. To see the official alphabet, see the chart in theOrthographies section of this article.

Consonants

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Qʼeqchiʼ has 29 consonants, 3 of which were loaned from Spanish.

Qʼeqchiʼ consonant phonemes[7][8][9]
BilabialAlveolarPost-alv./
Palatal		VelarUvularGlottal
Nasalmn
Plosivevoicelessptkqʔ
glottalizedpʼ[a]tʼkʼqʼ
voiced[b]bdɡ
Affricatevoicelesststʃ
glottalizedtsʼtʃʼ
Fricativesʃχh
Liquidtapɾ
laterall
Semivowelwj
  1. ^In their respectivedescriptive grammars of Qʼeqchiʼ, both Juan Tzoc Choc[10] and Stephen Stewart[11] have the bilabial implosive as a voiced/ɓ/. The report on Qʼeqchiʼ dialect variation by Sergio Caz Cho, however, only discusses this consonant as a voiceless/ɓ̥/.[12]
  2. ^The non-glottalized voiced plosives/bdɡ/ have appeared as a result of influence from Spanish.[7]

Vowels

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Qʼeqchiʼ has 10 vowels, which differ inquality and also inlength.

Qʼeqchiʼ vowel phonemes[7][13][14]
FrontCentralBack
Closeiiːuuː
Mideeːooː
Openaaː

Prosody

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With a few exceptions—interjections, such asuyaluy,[15] and adjectives which have an unstressed clitic on the end[16]—stress always falls on the final syllable.[16]

Grammar

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Like many other Mayan languages, Qʼeqchiʼ is anergative–absolutive language, which means that the object of a transitive verb is grammatically treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive verb.[17][18] Individual morphemes and morpheme-by-morpheme glosses in this section are given inIPA, while "full words," or orthographic forms, are given in theGuatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages orthography.

Morphology

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There are two kinds ofpronouns in Qʼeqchiʼ: independent pronouns andpronominal affixes. The independent pronouns are much like pronouns in English or Spanish, while the pronominal affixes are attached to words such as nouns, verbs, andstatives and used forinflection.[19][20]Like other Mayan languages, Qʼeqchiʼ has two sets of pronominal affixes, referred to as set A and set B. The following table provides all the pronominal affixes.

Pronominal Affixes[21]
Set ASet B
personprevocalicpreconsonantal
singular
1stwinin
2ndaːwaːat
3rdɾʃ∅
plural
1stqqaoː-, -o
2ndeːreːeʃ
3rdɾ--eɓ /-eʔɾʃ--eɓ / eʔx-eʔ /-eɓ

When these affixes are attached to transitive verbs, set A affixes indicate the ergative agent while set B indicates the absolutive object.

Transitive Verbs[22]
PrevocalicPreconsonantal
translationfull wordmorpheme breakdowntranslationfull wordmorpheme breakdown
Tense/aspectSet BSet AbaseTense/aspectSet BSet Abase
we saw youxatqilʃatqilI called youxatinbʼoqʃatinɓoq
they saw youxateʼrilʃateʔɾils/he called youxatxbʼoqʃatʃɓoq

When a set B affix is attached to an intransitive verb, it indicates the subject of the intransitive verb.

Intransitive Verbs[23]
translationfull wordmorpheme breakdown
Tense/aspectSet Bbase
singular
I sleptxinwarʃinwaɾ
you sleptxatwarʃatwaɾ
s/he sleptxwarʃ∅waɾ
plural
we sleptxoowarʃoowaɾ
you (pl.) sleptxexwarʃeʃwaɾ
they sleptxeʼwarʃeʔwaɾ

When an affix from set A is prefixed to a noun, it indicates possession. As their name suggests, the prevocalic forms of set A affixes are only found before vowels. However, the rules for the distribution of "preconsonantal" set A prefixes on nouns are more complex, and they can sometimes be found before vowels as well as consonants. For example, loan words (principally from Spanish) are found with preconsonantal affixes, regardless of whether they begin with a consonant or not. In contrast, kinship and body part words—which are words very unlikely to be loaned—always take the prevocalic prefixes if they begin with vowels.[24] The following chart contrasts these two situations.

Possession of nouns[25]
Body part and kinship termsLoan words
EnglishcorrectincorrectEnglishSpanishcorrectincorrect
my wifewixaqil*inixaqilmy manure/fertilizermi abonoinabʼoon*wabʼoon
my older brotherwas*inasmy altarmi altarinartal*wartal
my tonguewaqʼ*inaqʼmy sugarmi azúcarinasuukr*wasuukr

When an affix of set B serves as the suffix of astative, it indicates the subject ortheme of the stative.

Inflected statives[26]
translationQʼeqchiʼ
full wordmorphemes
he/she/it is bignimnim –∅
we are bignimonim – o
you (pl.) are threeoxibʼexoʃiɓ –eʃ
they are threeoxibʼebʼoʃiɓ –eɓ
I am farnajtinnaχt – in
you are farnajtatnaχt – at

Statives can be derived from nouns. The process simply involves suffixing the set B pronominal affix to the end of the root.

Noun as stative[27]
translationQʼeqchiʼ
full wordsmorphemes
manwinqwinq
you are a manwinqatwinq – at
he is a manwinqwinq –∅

Syntax

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The basic word order of Qʼeqchiʼ sentences isverb – object – subject, or VOS.[28][29] SVO, VSO, SOV, OVS, and OSV word orders are all possible in Qʼeqchiʼ, but each have a specific use and set of restrictions.[30] Thedefiniteness andanimacy of the subject and object can both have effects on the word order.[31][32] Like many languages, the exact rules for word order in different situations vary from town to town in the Qʼeqchiʼ speaking area.[32]

Examples of basic word order[33]
Qʼeqchiʼtranslation
verbobjectsubjectsubjectverbobject
transitivefull wordsXrilli wakaxli chʼajomThe young mansawthe cattle
morphemesʃ –∅ –ɾ – illiwakaʃlitʃʼaχom
intransitivefull wordsXkamli tzʼiʼThe dogdied
morphemesʃ –∅ – kamlitsʼiʔ

Orthography

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Several writing systems have been developed for Qʼeqchiʼ, but only two are in widespread use: SIL and ALMG.[citation needed]

Early transcriptions

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The first transcriptions of Qʼeqchiʼ in the Latin alphabet were made by Roman Catholic friars in the 16th century. Francisco de la Parra devised additional letters to represent the unfamiliar consonants of Mayan languages, and these were used to write Qʼeqchiʼ. Examples of Qʼeqchiʼ written with the de la Parra transcription can be seen in the 18th century writing of the Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection (Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll. 700). In the 20th century, before Sedat and Eachus & Carlson developed their SIL orthography, field researchers devised alternate Latin transcriptions. For example, Robert Burkitt (an anthropologist fluent in spoken Qʼeqchiʼ and familiar with a range of Qʼeqchiʼ communities and language variation), in his 1902 paper "Notes on the Kekchí Language", uses a transcription based on then-current Americanist standards.[34]

SIL/IIN

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A Spanish-style orthography was developed bySummer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) field researchers, principally William Sedat in the 1950s and Francis Eachus and Ruth Carlson in the 1960s.[35] This alphabet was officialized by the Guatemalan Ministry of Education through theInstituto Indigenista Nacional de Guatemala, or the IIN.[36] Although no longer considered standard, this orthography remains in circulation in large part due to the popularity of a few texts including the Protestant Bible produced by the SIL/Wycliffe Bible Translation Project, and a widely used language learning workbook "Aprendamos Kekchí".[citation needed]

ALMG

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TheProyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín (PLFM) developed an alternative orthography in the late 1970s, which was influenced by theInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Of note, the PLFM orthography used the number "7" to write the glottal plosive, whereas the apostrophe was used in digraphs and trigraphs to write ejective stops and affricates. This system was later modified by theAcademia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG), which replaced the "7" with the apostrophe. The result, the ALMG orthography, has been the standard, official way to write Qʼeqchiʼ, at least in Guatemala, since 1990. In the ALMG orthography, eachgrapheme (or "letter", includingdigraphs andtrigraphs) is meant to correspond to a particularphoneme. These include separatevowels for long and short sounds, as well as the use of apostrophes (saltillos) for writing ejectives and the glottal stop.[37] The following table matches each of the official ALMG graphemes with their IPA equivalents.

Comparison of the ALMG Qʼeqchiʼ orthography to the IPA[38]
ALMGaaabʼchchʼeeehiiijkkʼlmnooopqqʼrsttʼtztzʼuuuwxyʼ
IPAaaːɓtʃtʃʼeeːhiiːχkkʼlmnooːpqqʼrsttʼtstsʼuuːwʃjʔ

Comparison of the two major orthographies

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Comparative examples of the ALMG and SIL orthographies[citation needed]
ALMGSILEnglish translation
maakʼa ta chinkʼul saʼ laa muhebʼal aakiʼchebalmaacʼa ta chincʼul saʼ laa muhebal aaquiʼchebaalMay nothing happen to me in your shady places and your forests.
yo chi amaqʼink laj Kachil Petényo chi amakʼinc laj Cachil PeténCarlos lives (is living) in Petén.

History

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At the time of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Qʼeqchiʼ was probably spoken by fewer people than neighboring languages such as Itzaʼ, Mopan, and Choltiʼ, all of which are now moribund or extinct. The main evidence for this fact is not colonial documents, but the prevalence of loan words apparently stemming from these languages in Qʼeqchiʼ. However, a number of factors made Qʼeqchiʼ do better than the just-mentioned languages. One is the difficult mountainous terrain which is its home. Another is that, rather than simply being conquered, as the Choltiʼ, or resisting conquest for an extended period, as the Itzaʼ did for over 200 years, the Qʼeqchiʼ came to a particular arrangement with the Spaniards, by which Dominican priests, led initially by Fray Bartolome de las Casas, were allowed to enter their territory and proselytize undisturbed, whereas no lay Spaniards were admitted. This led to their territory being renamed "Verapaz" (true peace) by the Spaniards, a name which continues today in the Guatemalan departments Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz. This relatively favorable early development allowed the people to spread, and even make war on neighboring Mayan groups. Although it was later followed by the brutal policies of the late-19th-century liberals and the late-20th century military governments, it largely explains the status of Qʼeqchiʼ as the 3rd largest Mayan language in Guatemala and the 4th across the Mayan region. The relatively recent, postcolonial expansion is also the reason that Qʼeqchiʼ is perhaps the most homogeneous of the larger Mayan languages.[39]

Qʼeqchiʼ is taught in public schools throughGuatemala's intercultural bilingual education programs.

Texts

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Like most other Mayan languages, Qʼeqchiʼ is still in the process of becoming a written and literary language. Existing texts can roughly be divided into the following categories.[citation needed]

  1. Educational texts meant to teach people how to speak, read or write Qʼeqchiʼ. This category includes materials such as dictionaries and grammars, as well as workbooks designed to be used in rural Guatemala schools in communities where the majority of the people are native speakers of Qʼeqchiʼ.
  2. Religious texts. The Protestant version of the Bible (published by the SIL based on the work of William Sedat, and Eachus and Carlson) mentioned above is probably the most widely available text in Qʼeqchiʼ. In the last twenty years or so, theRoman Catholic Church has been one of the primary proponents of written Qʼeqchiʼ. Various Catholic organizations are responsible for producing a number of texts, including the New Testament, Genesis and Exodus, and various instructional pamphlets. A songbook entitledQanimaaq Xloqʼal li Qaawaʼ 'We praise the Lord' is very popular among Catholics, has been in print for many years, and is updated with new songs regularly. TheBook of Mormon also is available in Qʼeqchiʼ as are also other LDS religious texts.[40]
  3. Non-instructive secular texts have also begun to appear in the last ten years or so, although they are still few in number. The most ambitious of these works have been a free translation of theKʼicheʼ textPopol Wuj ("Popol Vuh") by the Qʼeqchiʼ language teacher and translator Rigoberto Baq Qaal (or Baʼq Qʼaal), and a collection of Qʼeqchiʼ folk tales. A number of government documents have also been translated into Qʼeqchiʼ, including the Guatemalan Constitution.

External links

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Bibliography

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Grammars of Qʼeqchiʼ

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  • Caz Cho, Sergio (2007).Xtzʼilbʼal rix li aatinak saʼ Qʼeqchiʼ = Informe de variación dialectal en Qʼeqchiʼ = (in Spanish). Antigua, Guatemala; Guatemala, Guatemala: Oxlajuuj Keej Mayaʼ Ajtzʼiibʼ (OKMA); Cholsamaj.ISBN 9789992253526.OCLC 202514532.
  • Eachus, Francis; Carlson, Ruth (1980).Aprendamos kekchí: Gramática pedagógica popular de kekchí. Guatemala: Instituto Lingüístico del Verano (Summer Institute of Linguistics). Retrieved18 May 2016. This is a pedagogical grammar, rather than a descriptive grammar like the majority in this section.
  • Stewart, Steven (1980).Gramática kekchí (in Spanish). Editorial Academica Centro America: Guatemala.OCLC 318333627. This grammar does not include syntax. The area of study for the book was Cobán and the surrounding towns of San Pedro Carchá, San Juan Chamelco, and Chamil.
  • Stoll, Otto (1896).Die Sprache der Kʼeʼkchí-Indianer (in German).
  • Tzoc Choc, Juan; Álvarez Cabnal, Alfredo; Carlos Federico, Hun Macz; Sacul Caal, Hugo; the Qʼeqchiʼ language community (2003).Gramática descriptiva del idioma maya qʼeqchiʼ = Xtzʼilbʼal rix xnaʼlebʼil li aatinobʼaal qʼeqchiʼ (in Spanish). Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. pp. 114–115.OCLC 654408920. RetrievedMay 4, 2016.
  • Tzoc Choc, Juan; Álvarez Cabnal, Alfredo; the Qʼeqchiʼ language community (2004).Gramática normativa qʼeqchiʼ (in Spanish). Guatemala: Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. Retrieved5 May 2016. This is a normative grammar, rather than a descriptive grammar like the majority in this section.

Articles on Qʼeqchiʼ

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Dictionaries of Qʼeqchiʼ

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  • Frazier, Jeffrey (2015).Qʼeqchiʼ Mayan Thematic Dictionary: Tusbʼil Molobʼaal Aatin Qʼeqchiʼ ~ Inkles (in Qʼeqchiʼ and English). Mayaglot; 1 edition (June 21, 2015).ISBN 978-1514812280.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Frazier, Jeffrey (2015).Qʼeqchiʼ Mayan Dictionary: Molobʼaal Aatin Qʼeqchiʼ ~ Inkles (in Qʼeqchiʼ and English). Mayaglot; 1 edition (December 11, 2015).ISBN 978-0692602096.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Haeserijn, Esteban (1979).Diccionario kʼekchiʼ español (in Spanish).
  • Sedat, William (1955).Nuevo diccionario de las lenguas Kʼekchiʼ y española (in Spanish). Guatemala: Alianza para el Progreso.
  • Tuyuc Sucuc, Cecilio (2001).Xtusulal aatin saʼ qʼeqchiʼ = Vocabulario qʼeqchiʼ(PDF) (in Qʼeqchiʼ and Spanish). Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, Comunidad Lingüística Qʼeqchiʼ.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

References

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  1. ^Qʼeqchiʼ atEthnologue (24th ed., 2021)Closed access icon
  2. ^Proyecto de Reformas a la Constitución Política
  3. ^"Atlas de los Pueblos Indígenas de México: Q'eqchi' – Lengua".Atlas de los Pueblos Indígenas de México. Inpi.
  4. ^"Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas: Q'eqchi'". Archived fromthe original on 2023-05-07. Retrieved2023-05-07.
  5. ^abcRichards, Michael (2003).Atlas Lingüístico de Guatemala(PDF). Guatemala: Instituto de Lingüística y Educación. pp. 76–77. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2016-06-11. Retrieved2016-05-18.
  6. ^Stewart 1980, p. xiii.
  7. ^abcStewart 1980, p. 2.
  8. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, p. 12.
  9. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 19.
  10. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, pp. 8, 17.
  11. ^Stewart 1980, pp. 2, 4–5.
  12. ^Caz Cho 2007, pp. 19, 21–22.
  13. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, p. 24.
  14. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 20.
  15. ^Kockelman 2003.
  16. ^abStewart 1980, p. 21.
  17. ^Stewart 1980, p. 76.
  18. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, pp. 114–115.
  19. ^Stewart 1980, pp. 23–37.
  20. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, pp. 36–40.
  21. ^Caz Cho 2007, pp. 47, 53. See also Stewart 1980, p. 24, and Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, pp. 38–40
  22. ^Stewart 1980, pp. 33–36.
  23. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 54.
  24. ^Stewart 1980, pp. 25–28.
  25. ^Stewart 1980, pp. 27–28.
  26. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 58.
  27. ^Stewart 1980, p. 90.
  28. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, p. 102.
  29. ^Caz Cho 2007, pp. 187–188.
  30. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 187.
  31. ^Tzoc Choc et al. 2003, p. 103.
  32. ^abCaz Cho 2007, pp. 187–198.
  33. ^Caz Cho 2007, p. 188.
  34. ^Burkitt 1902.
  35. ^Alfabeto kekchí, SIL database
  36. ^Eachus & Carlson 1980, p. xiv.
  37. ^DeChicchis 2011.
  38. ^Tzoc Choc, Álvarez Cabnal & the Qʼeqchiʼ language community 2004, pp. 14–54.
  39. ^Wichmann 2007.
  40. ^Kai A. Andersen,"In His Own Language",Liahona, June 1997, 29; seeavailable listArchived 2007-09-28 at theWayback Machine of Qʼeqchiʼ LDS publications at ldscatalog.com.
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