The Qʼeqchiʼ language, casually spoken | Amalaia speaking Kekchi Mayan | Wikitongues

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Q'eqchi, also spelled Quequchi or Kekchi, is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize. It is closely related to Kaqchikel, Sakapulteco, and more distantly to K'iche'/Quiché.
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More from Wikipedia: "The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ communities in Guatemala and Belize. The area where Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken spreads across northern Guatemala into southern Belize. There are also some Qʼeqchiʼ speaking communities in Mexico. In the country of Belize, Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken in the Toledo District. 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."
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@Wikitongues 3 жыл бұрын
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@Maria-yf6fv
@Maria-yf6fv 3 жыл бұрын
I wish you put a translation. I would love to know what her words mean. Thank you.🙋‍♀️🙏🏼
@trueuniv4333
@trueuniv4333 Жыл бұрын
Hi, do you know Q'eqchi? I need help in translation from English to English to Q'eqchi. You will get payment for this translation.
@D0GGy333
@D0GGy333 3 жыл бұрын
Viva la cultura maya
@oscarivancordon1021
@oscarivancordon1021 3 жыл бұрын
In case anyone wonders, Q'eqchi' is the most spoken and most thriving Mayan language. Over 1.3 million people in Guatemala speak it natively in their daily lives, plus smaller pockets in Belize and migrants in other countries. It is also often spoken as a second language by non-indigenous people in northern Guatemala. It is spoken across all age groups.
@Flower-ff2qs
@Flower-ff2qs Жыл бұрын
I was just in Lanquin yesterday. Amazed at how many natives there only speak Q’eqchi’. I was unable to communicate with them in Spanish and it was very eye opening for me. (As many locals in that area don’t know Spanish at all) Very sweet amazing people 😊
@simplysafari1602
@simplysafari1602 9 ай бұрын
Yeah both of my parents are kekchi and I can speak it
@quetzalcoatl3242
@quetzalcoatl3242 3 жыл бұрын
El verdadero idioma de Guatemala. Deberían hacerlo oficial ☺️
@anibalmorataya1612
@anibalmorataya1612 4 ай бұрын
Cual de todos????? Son 20 idiomas libre del garífuna y español......
@ira1420
@ira1420 3 жыл бұрын
We need more native languages!!! ❤️
@ScarHydreigon87
@ScarHydreigon87 2 жыл бұрын
Both my grandparents spoke Q'eqchi while they were out helping the people in Guatemala during the Civil War, and was the last language my grandmother spoke in her dying months
@Brillemeister
@Brillemeister 3 жыл бұрын
Remarkable sounding language. Thanks for sharing. God bless
@aliciaisidro9735
@aliciaisidro9735 3 жыл бұрын
My grandma speaks mam an idiom from Guatemala too, and she would be more than happy to participate
@WhompingWalrus
@WhompingWalrus Жыл бұрын
Do!
@andrewstiller1662
@andrewstiller1662 3 жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating.
@mch12311969
@mch12311969 3 жыл бұрын
I often wondered what it sounded like.
@eb.3764
@eb.3764 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine how rich and culturally interesting the Americas would be hadit not been colonized.
@christinemeighan9705
@christinemeighan9705 3 жыл бұрын
Snaps to that! 👏🏽
@burno55_
@burno55_ 3 жыл бұрын
And also how backwards and uncivilized it would have been!
@dstan4549
@dstan4549 2 жыл бұрын
"Backwards" & "uncivilized".. To you maybe. Just like your daily norms would seem different to others from a different culture & background? Kind of what this channel was all about....
@caydenseely8859
@caydenseely8859 2 жыл бұрын
And that’s just the Americas. Imagine if all of Africa, Asia, Australia, etc hadn’t been colonized either. I’ve been learning more about the Celts too and the original European people before Rome overtook so much of Europe. It’s crazy and sad to think about
@alansilva9548
@alansilva9548 2 жыл бұрын
no.
@goldensuki
@goldensuki 2 жыл бұрын
That sounds so much like Quechua and mix of navajo
@MrAllmightyCornholioz
@MrAllmightyCornholioz 3 жыл бұрын
ITZAMNA BLESS THIS LADY!
@calista910
@calista910 3 жыл бұрын
i'm supposed to be apart of this but my father says im not so i have no idea, but thi s is so amazing! im half navajo too it reminds me of that
@CaribbeanColiseum
@CaribbeanColiseum 3 жыл бұрын
🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 This language is spoken here amongst the Maya in Belize, Central America 🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 Mainland Caribbean: Anglophone
@dustyrose86
@dustyrose86 2 жыл бұрын
I am one of these pure K'ekchi Mayan Indians from Belize ❤️ Jacinto Toledo district 🇧🇿
@trueuniv4333
@trueuniv4333 Жыл бұрын
Hi, do you know Q'eqchi? I need help in translation from English to English to Q'eqchi. You will get payment for this translation.
@correa1963
@correa1963 3 жыл бұрын
Cute lady speaking. Accent Good hear.
@KhmerKandal
@KhmerKandal 2 жыл бұрын
😇👏👏👏 beautiful indigenous language and abolished Spanish
@HarryGuit
@HarryGuit 3 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t they choose a place with no background noise or use a microphone or both?
@MasterAnyLanguage
@MasterAnyLanguage 5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@globetrekker86
@globetrekker86 3 жыл бұрын
Certain elements of Q’eqchi remind me of Yucatec Maya
@citrusblast4372
@citrusblast4372 3 жыл бұрын
Well they're mayan languages 😅
@globetrekker86
@globetrekker86 3 жыл бұрын
@@citrusblast4372 That, they are 🙂
@goldensuki
@goldensuki 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a Mayan language lmao
@michaelsolorzano4358
@michaelsolorzano4358 3 жыл бұрын
Did I detect some Spanish near the beginning? 2004?
@Reggie_la
@Reggie_la 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe they didn't have that concept originally (maybe as number, maybe as a method to keep track of time) and borrowed it from spanish
@michaelsolorzano4358
@michaelsolorzano4358 3 жыл бұрын
I heard about that. Maybe I'm thinking of something else, but I remember hearing our numbers have Arabic origin or another language. Interesting for sure.
@Reggie_la
@Reggie_la 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelsolorzano4358 our numbers definetely come from the arabic form. I think they are talking about the year ("in 2004 I saw a bird ") and not about the number ("I have 2004 cows"). And in that case, the calendar is hispanic, so the name for the years is too. Like names for new technologies or places would be borrowed too.
@quetzalcoatl3242
@quetzalcoatl3242 3 жыл бұрын
@@Reggie_la no really. Mayas had a very old calendar system but due to the Spanish colonization the Spanish calendar replaced the Maya one.
@Reggie_la
@Reggie_la 3 жыл бұрын
@@quetzalcoatl3242 it would be very very very confusing and funny if she was talking about something really mundane but instead of the hispanic calendar used to maya one and said a completely different number xD
@discoooooooo
@discoooooooo 3 жыл бұрын
Very pretty.
@raphaellagnado2082
@raphaellagnado2082 3 жыл бұрын
A Mayan among Incas (in Cusco). Cool
@Animallovercomedian
@Animallovercomedian 2 жыл бұрын
Every so often I can hear similarities to spanish in the words. Says something about the influence Spanish had from Native American languages
@5FOOT6WARRIOR
@5FOOT6WARRIOR 2 жыл бұрын
Not really there was just words that didn't exist that they used instead of making words up
@HC-dv4pm
@HC-dv4pm 2 жыл бұрын
RIP Terry Kaufman
@trueuniv4333
@trueuniv4333 Жыл бұрын
Hi, do you know Q'eqchi? I need help in translation from English to English to Q'eqchi. You will get payment for this translation.
@brekthornton
@brekthornton Жыл бұрын
@trueuniv hello, I speak Q’eqchi
@garretttaylor7759
@garretttaylor7759 2 жыл бұрын
You guys neke'tiib' a lot of stuff. RIP your grandpa, your younger sibling, and your mom
@Exsecrabilis
@Exsecrabilis Жыл бұрын
-04/06/2023 @ 1957- 😁
@lohphat
@lohphat 3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think it sounds similar to Navajo?
@mgk3176
@mgk3176 3 жыл бұрын
Eeh... you know, that's like saying, Chinese and Japanese sound the same. They're both in the same area spoken, they may have similar structures of speaking and they may have influenced each other. But they are completely distinct languages. I often hear that and I always have to think that.
@lohphat
@lohphat 3 жыл бұрын
@@mgk3176 Japanese uses Chinese characters and their on-yomi pronunciation carries the Chinese sounds into Japanese. Yes, they are different languages but are fundamentally related as to word origins and sounds despite having very different grammars. The more you know...
@ltubabbo529
@ltubabbo529 3 жыл бұрын
@@mgk3176 What? There are more than 3000 km from Usa to Guatemala
@mgk3176
@mgk3176 3 жыл бұрын
@@ltubabbo529 you know, eurocentric world. America is one big thing somewhere to the left... no, that's a joke. maybe it was a bad example.
@quetzalcoatl3242
@quetzalcoatl3242 3 жыл бұрын
To me it sounds somehow similar to Arabic
@boemiobe4t993
@boemiobe4t993 3 жыл бұрын
When the English captions will be available?
@kathybramley5609
@kathybramley5609 3 жыл бұрын
When someone volunteers and completes the project!?
@Free_Snooki
@Free_Snooki 3 жыл бұрын
Isn't her name so pretty? Amalaia jambalaya. _=^.^=_
@Reggie_la
@Reggie_la 3 жыл бұрын
So it's different than quechua
@janeyguillen428
@janeyguillen428 3 жыл бұрын
Yep, there are lots of different Mayan languages/dialects (there's some debate as to whether they're languages in a family or dialects of a language, but they're not all mutually intelligible). Some of the Mayan dialects happen to have names similar to Quechua, but they are different languages from much further north.
@mokunju8296
@mokunju8296 4 ай бұрын
​@@janeyguillen428Quechua is not a Mayan Language...
@janeyguillen428
@janeyguillen428 4 ай бұрын
@mokunju8296 I'm sorry, that was a wording issue. I was trying to address that Mayan languages have different names but I didn't specify that it’s not related to Quechua.
@GuestDGaming
@GuestDGaming 3 жыл бұрын
It’s interesting to me that I heard Spanish names for numbers and not the native forms. Besides other loan words, perhaps this is another result of colonization on the language?
@jjaesse
@jjaesse 3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like clear Roman influence especially Portuguese, but also descended from Mayan tongues
@davidamat6588
@davidamat6588 3 жыл бұрын
@@jjaesse Portuguese? You know where Guatemala is, right?
@jjaesse
@jjaesse 3 жыл бұрын
@@davidamat6588 yes! And I could be wrong I was saying how it sounds like to me
@jeffbowersox5327
@jeffbowersox5327 Жыл бұрын
Another reason is that Mayan languages use a base 20 counting rather than base 10… that makes it almost impossible to use for mathematics. Most q’eqchi speakers only use actual q’eqchi numbers from 1-10, when higher counting is required they use Spanish (English oftentimes if they reside in Belize).
@malcolmdale
@malcolmdale Жыл бұрын
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