Mayan family
K'iche'
1500 CE – today Living
K'iche' (1500 CE – today) is a living Mayan language. Lineage: Proto-Mayan → K'iche'.
See K'iche' on the interactive map- Speakers
- 1M (1,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- quc
- Glottocode
- kich1262
K'ichean branch (Eastern Mayan). The Popol Vuh was written in Colonial K'iche'. The largest Mayan language in Guatemala.
Lineage
- Proto-Mayanc. 2,200 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- K'iche'1500 CE – today
Sister languages 8
Also descended from Proto-Mayan.