The Quiché language is a part of the Maya language family. It is still spoken by many Quiché people in Guatemala, although most also have at least a working knowledge of the Spanish language except in some isolated rural villages. With something close to a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), it is the second most widely spoken language in the country after Spanish. The Mayan languages are a family of related languages spoken from South-Eastern Mexico through northern Central America as far south as Honduras. ... This page is about the Native American people; for the dish, see quiche. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...

The most famous work in the Quiché language is the Popol Vuh. The Popol Vuh (Council Book or Book of the Community; Popol Wuj in modern Quiché spelling) is the book of scripture of the Quiché, a Kingdom of the Maya civilization in Guatemala. ...

Quiché Phonology

The spellings indicated below are as standardized by the Guatemalan government. Also mentioned in the notes field are areas where these differ from the spellings found in the Popol Vuh, as transliterated by Dennis Tedlock. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word phone = sound/voice) is the study of speech sounds (voice). ... In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... Technical Note: Most IPA symbols are not included in Times New Roman, the default font for Latin scripts in Internet Explorer for Windows. ...

A stop or plosive or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ... In spoken language, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words (i. ... The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. ... An affricate is a consonant that begins like a stop (most often an alveovelar, such as [t] or [d]) and that doesnt have a release of its own, but opens directly into a fricative (or, in one language, into a trill). ... The voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The nasals are a pair of bones in the skull of many animals. ... The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Laterals are L-like consonants pronounced with an occlusion made somewhere along the axis of the tongue, while air from the lungs escapes at one side or both sides of the tongue. ... Rhotic consonants, or R-like sounds, are non-lateral liquids. ... The alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The alveolar flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Semivowels (sometimes called semiconsonants) are vowels that function as consonants. ... Semivowels (sometimes called semiconsonants) are vowels that function as consonants. ... The palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in very many spoken languages. ... The labial-velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The close-mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The close front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The close-mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The close back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. ...

References

• Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. Touchstone Books (1996). ISBN 0684818450.
• A K'iche'-English Dictionary (http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/christenson/quidic_complete.pdf)