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Name: Kiché
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Quiché; Quiche; K'iche', Central; Central Quiché; Chiquel; Cachabel; Kiché proper; Utatlec; Quiché
Spoken in: Guatemala, Mexico
Number of speakers: 1,900,000 (2000 SIL) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 890822 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 1900000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: quc
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Mayan
Parent Subgroup: Kichéan Proper; Quichean; Core K'ichean; Quiché group; Quiche; K'iché; K'iche; Quiché-Sipacapa (quic)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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