Classical K'iche' language

Classical K'iche' language

Classical K'iche' is the term used to describe an ancestral form of the modern-day K'iche' language (Quiché in the older Spanish-based orthography), which was spoken in the highland regions of Guatemala around the time of the 16th century Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Classical Quiché has been preserved in a number of historical Mesoamerican documents, lineage histories, missionary texts and dictionaries, and is the language in which the renowned highland Maya creation account Popol Vuh (or Popol Wuj in modern orthography) is written.

References

Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Étienne (1862). Gramatica de la lengua quiche = Grammaire de la langue quichée, espagnole-française mise en parallèle avec ses deux dialectes, cakchiquel et tzutuhil, tirée des manuscrits des meilleurs auteurs guatémaliens: ouvrage accompagné de notes philologiques avec un vocabulaire comprenant les sources principales du quiché comparées aux langues germaniques et suivi d'un essai sur la poésie, la musique, la danse et l'art dramatique chez les Mexicains et les Guatémaltèques avant la conquête; servant d'introduction au Rabinal-Achi, drame indigène avec sa musique originale, texte quiché et traduction française en regard. Librairie américaine. Ziz Bartolo (Quiché–French trans.). Paris: Arthus Bertrand. OCLC 1819915.  (French) (Spanish) (K'iche')
Edmonson, Munro S. (1968). "Classical Quiche". In Norman A. McQuown (Volume ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 5: Linguistics. R. Wauchope (Series general ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 249–268. OCLC 277126. ISBN 0-292-73665-7. 



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