Classical Quiché

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Classical Quiché is the term used to describe an ancestral form of the modern-day K'iche' language (Quiché in the older Spanish-influenced orthography), which was spoken in the highland regions of Guatemala around the time of the 16th century Spanish colonization of the Americas. Classical Quiché has been preserved in a number of historical Mesoamerican documents, lineage histories, missionary texts and dictionaries, and is the language in which the renowned highland Maya creation account Popol Vuh (or Popol Wuj in modern orthography) is written.

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• Edmonson, Munro S. (1968). "Classical Quiche", in in Norman A. McQuown (Volume ed.): Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 5: Linguistics, R. Wauchope (General Editor), Austin: University of Texas Press, pp.249–268. ISBN 0-292-73665-7.