WIKITONGUES: Lorenzo speaking K'iche' Mayan
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- K’iche’ is spoken by at least two million people, primarily in the Central American nation of Guatemala, and by diaspora communities worldwide. It is the second-most widely spoken language in Guatemala after Spanish, and the most widely spoken Mayan language of any country. It has been a literary language since at least the 16th century CE, when it featured prominently in Classical Mayan literature, such as the Popol Vuh, as well as other religious, mythological, and historical texts. Following the Spanish Conquest of America and subsequent centuries of Spanish-only education, literacy in K’iche decreased and remains relatively low today; however, thanks to the work of cultural activists, it has been recognized as an official minority language by the Guatemalan government. As a result, it is increasingly taught in schools and features ever more prominently in local media.
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I loved this, l also speak K'iche as a guatemalan, and l don't want to forget it, I'm planning to teach my kids when l have them. I'm proud of my language.
What part of Guatemala? My bisabuela was from Merida, Yucatan and I'm doing some research on her, trying to reconnect. 💜 Thank you!
Is it hard to learn Kiche
Thank god for people like you, people need to love all languages, no language is more important then another. All languages should be loved and spoken, the beauty of a place is reflected in its language
@@misange137 Suchitepéquez
I wish I knew it
He's also in Orange is the New Black S7 speaking K'iche language as a translator . 2019. Good casting.
I've literally watched like 20 wikitongues videos straight, i didn't understand most of them but that doesn't matter. we need to keep peoples "native" languages alive! "A language survives if you have the choice to learn it, if it’s available for you to live your life in some way with your language as part of you."
I appreciate your interest in the indigenous communication systems of my people. Each body of peoples possess their own. I find linguistic studies fascinating.
+Ya Boi
Not just him. The entire US government doesn’t provide translation services or even acknowledge it exists.
Reason why USA tribes are starting immersion schools where only their indigenous languages are taught.
France is pretty shitty at keeping their other native languages alive, even ones that played a huge role in it's history. Like hey they are trying to stamp out occitan languages.
lmao yeah all those European migrants who lost their language coming here
I had a patient who spoke this language but also spoke Spanish so I communicated in Spanish but it was my first time hearing the Mayan language in real life
K'iche' is not THE Mayan language, as there are more than 20 Mayan languages still alive and well in Guatemala and Central America. K'iche' is the language my girlfriend's grandparents speak, and whenever I got down to Guate it's so interesting to hear them speak in a language that is so old and relatively unchanged. It's even more interesting when my girlfriend's parent's try to translate what I'm saying in english or spanish into K'iche' so the abuelitos can understand, bc normally what I'm trying to say just doesn't translate effectively.
Matt Barnes right but, overall we say in Guatemala Mayan Lenguage for everyone. For example I can’t be specific to call a Lenguage if I’m not sure. Then we say: can you speak in mayan Lenguage? Then the person says: yes I do, I speak mayan kaqchikel, or mayan Q’eqchi’ or mayan K’iche’ , etc.
Well I find it really sad that you only speak Spanish
@@shinnosukeyoshinori4313 why? Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world and can easily communicate with other romance languages
Kiche isn’t unchanged. It’s actually changed a lot since contact with the Spaniards. Kiche has adopted a lot of Spanish loanwords and undergone sound changes that happen for all languages.
Kiche does preserve the vowel system the best that other related languages have lost.
Amazing! May all native languages be preserved in the name of the divercity of humanity !
@Jack Ophelott stay in English speaking countries
@Jack Ophelott I live here
He’s on the season 7 of OITNB! recognized him by the tunnels!
Kelsey Atwill on orange is the new black
Was he really?! What season and episode? I thought he was actually the pregnant woman's k'iche translator in season 7, episode 11...??? Might that be him, too??? Lol.
I stumbled across this video trying to figure out what language the woman was speaking
@@yippehanako me toi
@@yippehanako me too
He is so handsome. Whenever I think of a mayan person I see a face that looks just like his! He’s keeping his peoples heritage alive and carries the face of his ancestors, they must be so proud!
I am a Mayan descendant and it is super cool to hear some f what my ancestors may have sounded like.
Sad that you don't know your own native language
I remember seeing a bunch of Guatemalans speaking this language when they were playing soccer in Florida, it's way cooler than Spanish.
Long live the native people of the Americas! We have not been erased!
People ask me why I am ashamed of speaking my native language, they tell me why I don't speak Spanish and I answer, Spanish is not my native language, I speak the Mayan language.
@@lisa-zq4kybeautiful. I admire your people.love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
It may or may not have been K'iche, very possibly it was, but there are like 20 Mayan languages in Guatemala that can be grouped into 4 or 5 language families
I've got a bunch of Guatemalans working in my kitchen and they all speak Mam with each other. It's absolutely amazing. Most hard working, friendly, and loyal people you'll ever come across.
I’m proud of him, I am from the same part of Guatemala! I don’t want to forget this beautiful language.
My daughter's boyfriend speaks this language as well.
I’m Guatemalan and I don’t speak quiche 😢I would love to learn it I’m proud of my roots
Mayan and nahuatl sound so cool
My husband is from Guatemala and speaks K’iche and I’m making sure he teaches our daughter.
I love Wikitongues but I think that it would be nicer if we could read the translation of their speech in English.
Good job guys!
Ángel Aurelio he said that he's not ashamed of speaking his language and he feels proud to speak it and proud of his country (which is mine too)
Brayan Chojolan can you teach the language on TH-cam?
So beautiful to hear K'iche'. What richness in our beloved American continent. Let's cherish it and help protect it as much as we can.
The language of my grandpa and great-grandmother :) sad they never taught it to my dad and pass it on :/ my great grandma is from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala and my grandpa is from Huixtla, Chiapas
Being part Guatemalan this is awesome. Preserve this language.
Mayan people are beautiful
+dripinwithsinz Oh gosh, agreed. He's gorgeous.
Yih Dzelonh Is that what make up Mayans? I'm just wondering.
Antech no
iskandar Oh ok.
No, Mayans are native to Central America. They have nothing to do with jewish people nor with austronesian people lol. Yih Dzelonh sounds like a racist and a conspiracy theorist. :-)
For those of you who dont know, Indigenous languages are very much alive in areas where there was much less Spanish settlement, like the Mesoamerican Heartland, which is from Western/Northern Guatemala into Southern Mexico (Oaxaca, rural Puebla, Yucatan, etc) as well as the Andean Heartland down in Peru and Bolivia.
It's definitely much harder to find indigenous languages in places like the Northern half of Mexico, much of Central America, the Hispanic Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela and especially in Southern South America
I wonder why the other Central American countries have way less indigenous population?
The minute I saw the scene in OITNB season 7 episode 11 “God Bless America” interpretation scene had to look up the language and it led me here and this is the interpreter for the scene! Cool!
Same!
Same here.
Ha me too!
The bad side of the story is that sometimes we get discriminated when some people hear us talking I'm K'iche.
BEAUTIFUL! K'iche resonates with me, even though I am learning. In my heart and mind, THAT'S MY LANGUAGE!
You can clearly see the fire in his eyes... spoken with joy!
Proud to have Mayan blood 🩸🇬🇹🔥
What a beautiful language.
Its interesting because majority of people I've met, that speak Mayan, are from Guatemala
Beautiful people beautiful languages. Can’t wait to go back.
I also speak k'iche mayan language
teach us the ways of our people
Really? Message me how do you say i love you in your language
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Any tips on learning? I only speak Spanish, I'm so Chapín and I really want to learn
@@magenjimenez6383 In Loq'Oq'Ej At.
Mayan K'iche to. I Love You
I speak k'iche too!
I learned with my mom.
I would love to get two abuelitas from guatemala (k'iche) and chiapas (tzotzil) and see if they understand each other
tal vez... partiendo que chiapas era parte de guatemala.. ahí deben haber cosas similares
They probably wouldnt. idk why tzotzil specifically, considering you would have found the same answer from one of the other like 30 mayan languages in guatemala like qeqchi or mam
I am part Tzotzil
D: se parece tanto al maya peninsular en Yucatán, México!!! Me gustaría saber cuáles son las diferencias entre el quiché y el maya peninsular
alicefaby hola! El Maya Peninsular no creo que sea un idioma sino que eso es una región del área de Mesoamerica. En la Península de Mexico hay varias ciudades y colonias que tienen su propio lenguaje. En Guatemala todavía se hablan 21 idiomas Mayas y en este video se está hablando el idioma K’iche’ unos de los idiomas más hablado después del castellano.
El maya yukateko está más emparentado con el Mopán, Q’eqchi’, Itzá y el Ch’orti’ (hablados en Guatemala)
La diferencia es que el K’iche viene directo del Protomaya - Quicheano
Mientras que el yukateko viene del
Protomaya - Chontal
Pero viniendo ambos del tronco Protomaya, hay muchas palabras similares o iguales, ejemplos: xikin: oreja; ja’ o ha’: agua, etc.
En Guatemala se hablan 23 idiomas de origen maya, también el xinka de origen mexicano- Azteca y el Garínagu (garífuna) que es afrodecendiente. Saludos desde New England. En un tiempo fui traductor del Maya K’iche y más reciente colaborador de la Revista Baktún de Yucatán, México.
R Vicente amigo, con mucho respeto le diré que si no está seguro mejor no utilice YO CREO , porque no es información verídica. Saludos.
@@javiervegalopez5313 es interesante conocer acerca de las similitudes entre lenguas mayas, si no estoy mal deberían ser tan parecidos como el español y el portugués (?)
en una escala del 1 al 10 ¿que tan parecidos son las lenguas mayas de cierta rama las unas con las otras? por ejemplo ¿que tanto se entienden un hablante de K'iche con una de Kaqchiquel? (ambos de la rama quicheana) ¿se entienden lo suficiente como para tener una conversación normal o no mucho? tambien, no seria genial que se estableciera o desarrollara un dialecto estándar por cada rama (quiche para las lenguas de la rama quicheana, Mame para las lenguas de la misma rama, y así con todas las ramas)
MB7783 muy buena comparación, te diría con mi experiencia que yo siendo hablante K’iche Oriental, soy de un territorio rodeado por Kaqchikel y Achi, de manera que entiendo de 1-10 un 8 de Kaqchikel y un 9 de Achi. Pero no sucede lo mismo con todas las ramas, de hecho algunas variantes del propio idioma son muy diferentes entre pueblo y pueblo. Definitivamente no sería posible hacer un idioma estándar.
Amazing. If I didn't know this was a Mayan language, I'd have guessed it was Eastern European or maybe Hebrew by the sound of it, but that just goes to show how background and and previous exposures shape one's perception.
Doesn't sound like any eastern european language, but you got it right with jewish(you can hear lots of ș , h and k)
@@victort.9466 I think I was thinking of Chechen at the time, but now I'm not sure.
native dude
Very interesting. Thanks a lot for uploading
I loved this
Beautiful!
Increíblemente hermosa
what a beautiful language!
Amazing, this language has similar sounds we have in Chechen language. If it didn't mention which language this is, I would definitely think it's North-Caucasian language
Beautiful language.
Hola desde México. Estoy buscando alguien que traduzca este texto: "Chinakuyu. Weta' m taj jas kab'ij. Xinkik'am loq chiri'. Kinchob'taj. Muchas gracias por su ayuda. Saludos.
La traducción es esta: “Disculpa. No entiendo lo que dices. Me trajeron aquí. No entiendo. “
Saludos Laura.
Quiere decir .
Discúlpame no se que decir aquí me trajieron y desconozco
Me gusto el mensaje, espero que nuestra genge que reside en USA piensan lo mismo que el.
Pero qué está diciendo?
Hola desde México. Estoy buscando alguien que traduzca unas líneas. Podrías ayudarme por favor. Saludos
MUY FANYASYICO.lORENZO,CUIDAR ESTE IDIOMA NUESTRO.
His full name is Byron Lorenzo Tzoc but unfortunately I couldn’t find him on social media :(
This really resonates with me.
Ese es un Fedelobo con todas las de la ley
Lorenzo is so handsome!
His name is Byron
I kind of think this language sounds like a mix between spanish and georgian. I really find this language beautiful and interesting.
Any Age of Empires players? They use modern-day K'iche' in game!
If all of these videos had English subtitles so we could understand the words that would be great...
Beautiful language
I am curious about how I can help a student that speaks K'iche' only.
Learn a bit. Teach each other, when there are no books you have to learn like babies do.
If the student only speaks his her native language then its for the best.
Turn on the captions
so beautiful!
Im from Ecuador. Wish I learned to speak Quichua
Beautiful! I wondered what he said.
does anyone know how to reach him? I would like to hire him for interpretation
A A hi, I can help you. I men I can speak K’iche’, Spanish and I’m in level 6 of English. I live in Rhode Island. Let me know.
We all know what purpose you want to hire him for 😏
@@javiervegalopez5313 any tips on learning the language? I'm Guatemalan but only know Spanish and English, I want to learn K'iche!
my girls dad is Guatemalan and speaks K'iche. He also spoke Spanish. He tried to teach me K'iche but it was hard to learn. I still remember a few words but not many. I picked up Spanish a lot faster.
Interesting.. Where are you from?
What an unusual sounding language! So grateful to hear it spoken. I am interested in learning more about pre-columbian languages of Mexico and Central America. So cool to hear.
Es el Fedelobo
In kikot ch-e ch'awik K'iche', maltiox ch-e nu tat. 😁
Ri jelelaj najtir ch'abal aj nu nantat.
✊🏽
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espero este lenguaje nunca muera saludos hermanos Guatemaltecos mis respetos por mantener la cultura pre colombiana viva
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Saludos cordiales, es difícil que muera no es tan abemos 2 millones que lo hablamos, muchos no a la perfección ✨️ 😉 pero lo hablamos.
Y no 😔 es tanto precolombina no 😄😄😅😅 todos creen que es, lo, que, no, es.
Pero bueno así están los estudiosos, según ellos muy estudiosos 😅😅😅
שלום
Yo, soy Ak'ab'al y significa:
Comienzo de la noche, mitad de la noche, representa la noche, lo más oscuro de la noche, también la madrugada, el amanecer, y la salida del alba, el comienzo de un nuevo día...
Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰
Looking for a video or resource so I can find out how to pronounce the word "K'iche" itself! any suggestions?
is there an audio book or something similar to be able to learn this language??
lindo idioma!
Si es el fedelobo
This is cool❤️
What he saying
There are many sounds in the Mayan language identical to the language of the Phoenicians
Mayan and Aztecs are ancient Siberians who crossed the Alaskan bridge and traveled down to warmer america. The language almost sounds russian
Sounds like Mongolian to me.
The way it really doesn’t
...and Southern Mexico
Is this the same dude from Orange is the New Black?
I love visiting Guatemala. They have very rich cultures. They are very beautiful and proud people. Especially the women. They are elegant. Viva Guatemala!
porque en quiché tengo entendido, no existen todas las palabras, no es muy amplio y siempre mezclan con español cuando no existe una palabra en el dialecto
lafilleenfant existen, pero es lo mismo que pasa con la gente que habla spanglish, aunque exista en español, meten palabras en inglés. Eso se llama transculturización a través del idioma.
A very intelligent people K'iche' last to be conquered by Spain using Totanac mercenaries
Ai mi papa no abla en quiche con mi pero el abla con my hermana
No subtitles?
Would like to learn this language what books do you recommend?
Are there any K'che speakers in Houston, TX?
+Nery Maz yes, many from Guatemala that live in Houston speak it. Im Guatemalan and live in Houston, im trying to learn the language
yes ... sir.. Guatemala present everywhere USA
How much do Guatemalans like the US
Cicero alot because its alamd of opportunity and it is native to all this continent
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"Pues"
Mantenga nuestro lenguage dentro vosotros hermanos y mi's hermanas. No se apuren tengan paciencia. Huari...
I LOVE!!! Chapines. Que bello son. Su cuerpo tan cafesito y suave. Me matan.
Only reason I’m so interested in this is because I was working all day with some Guatemalans that spoke this as their first language and taught me some of it. Such a cool thing to witness. I’m just some regular white dude from the states but this is very Interesting to me
Nice
😯😯 it's an interesting tongue.
El idioma Ki'che esta completo el problema de los que mesclan el castellano en el idoma ki'che es porque no lo saben completo.. asi que no comenten nada mas por comentar si no han investigado mas del idioma.
tambien los idiomas mayas tiene mas de una riqueza de vocabulario, que español porque son muchos mas antiguos que el español o otro idioma europeo
ese man es un core" fan por sus orejas.. ojalá esté en el deathcore
Is this Southern Mayan K'iche'?
Marco Rocchio is central K’iche actually, he told is from Nahualá, Sololá near to Atitlan Lake and Quetzaltenango, so in the linguistic map of K’iche Lenguage it means Central K’iche. Southern K’iche is like Pacific Coast (Retalhuleu, Suchitepéquez)
I mean I'm a linguist so I read the phonology page in advance but it is nothing compared to hearing it in person. It sounds like the triple love child of Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish.
S.A. H. I agree
Turkish are closely related to native Americans by DNA
Is K'iche' a Mayan dialect then?
By the way of speaking, it's kinda like tagalog and hebrew
¿Qué esta diciendo?
Renzo Moyano dijo buenas tardes mi nombre es byron vengo del lugar tierra del maiz guatemala y hoy vengo hablarles en mi idioma nativo AMERICANO que nos enseñaron nuestros abuelos yo no tengo vergüenza de hablar mi idioma nativo debemos enseñarles a nuestros hijos etc.lo se porqué yo hablo kiche
They should revive these languages like what they did in isreal with hebrew
Can someone do a video on the ma'am mayan language?
K’iche was lost in my family so I was never able to learn it especially sense I’m in the US I wish I could have learned and I want to learn so bad
Its sounds like an Arabic related language. I hear it.
Sounds like middle eastern language