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

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[@Maria-yf6fv]

I wish you put a translation. I would love to know what her words mean. Thank you.🙋‍♀️🙏🏼

[@trueuniv4333]

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.

[@oscarivancordon1021]

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]

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]

Yeah both of my parents are kekchi and I can speak it

[@D0GGy333]

Viva la cultura maya

[@ira1420]

We need more native languages!!! ❤️

[@ScarHydreigon87]

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

[@quetzalcoatl3242]

El verdadero idioma de Guatemala. Deberían hacerlo oficial ☺️

[@anibalmorataya1612]

Cual de todos????? Son 20 idiomas libre del garífuna y español......

[@eb.3764]

Imagine how rich and culturally interesting the Americas would be hadit not been colonized.

[@christinemeighan9705]

Snaps to that! 👏🏽

[@burno55_]

And also how backwards and uncivilized it would have been!

[@dstan4549]

"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]

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]

no.

[@Brillemeister]

Remarkable sounding language. Thanks for sharing. God bless

[@aliciaisidro9735]

My grandma speaks mam an idiom from Guatemala too, and she would be more than happy to participate

[@WhompingWalrus]

Do!

[@andrewstiller1662]

This is so fascinating.

[@goldensuki]

That sounds so much like Quechua and mix of navajo

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

ITZAMNA BLESS THIS LADY!

[@calista910]

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

[@mch12311969]

I often wondered what it sounded like.

[@CaribbeanColiseum]

🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 This language is spoken here amongst the Maya in Belize, Central America 🇧🇿🇧🇿🇧🇿 Mainland Caribbean: Anglophone

[@dustyrose86]

I am one of these pure K'ekchi Mayan Indians from Belize ❤️ Jacinto Toledo district 🇧🇿

[@trueuniv4333]

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.

[@HarryGuit]

Couldn’t they choose a place with no background noise or use a microphone or both?

[@michaelsolorzano4358]

Did I detect some Spanish near the beginning? 2004?

[@Reggie_la]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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

[@KhmerKandal]

😇👏👏👏 beautiful indigenous language and abolished Spanish

[@globetrekker86]

Certain elements of Q’eqchi remind me of Yucatec Maya

[@citrusblast4372]

Well they're mayan languages 😅

[@globetrekker86]

@@citrusblast4372 That, they are 🙂

[@goldensuki]

It’s a Mayan language lmao

[@discoooooooo]

Very pretty.

[@MasterAnyLanguage]

Thank you

[@raphaellagnado2082]

A Mayan among Incas (in Cusco). Cool

[@trueuniv4333]

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]

@trueuniv hello, I speak Q’eqchi

[@Animallovercomedian]

Every so often I can hear similarities to spanish in the words. Says something about the influence Spanish had from Native American languages

[@5FOOT6WARRIOR]

Not really there was just words that didn't exist that they used instead of making words up

[@garretttaylor7759]

You guys neke'tiib' a lot of stuff. RIP your grandpa, your younger sibling, and your mom

[@HC-dv4pm]

RIP Terry Kaufman

[@boemiobe4t993]

When the English captions will be available?

[@kathybramley5609]

When someone volunteers and completes the project!?

[@Exsecrabilis]

-04/06/2023 @ 1957- 😁

[@Free_Snooki]

Isn't her name so pretty? Amalaia jambalaya. _=^.^=_

[@Reggie_la]

So it's different than quechua

[@janeyguillen428]

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]

​@@janeyguillen428Quechua is not a Mayan Language...

[@janeyguillen428]

@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.

[@lohphat]

Anyone else think it sounds similar to Navajo?

[@mgk3176]

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]

@@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]

@@mgk3176 What? There are more than 3000 km from Usa to Guatemala

[@mgk3176]

@@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]

To me it sounds somehow similar to Arabic

[@GuestDGaming]

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]

Sounds like clear Roman influence especially Portuguese, but also descended from Mayan tongues

[@davidamat6588]

@@jjaesse Portuguese? You know where Guatemala is, right?

[@jjaesse]

@@davidamat6588 yes! And I could be wrong I was saying how it sounds like to me

[@jeffbowersox5327]

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]

Botiq!