K'iche is a native Mesoamerican language of the Mayan family, spoken by communities in Guatemala. It is an ergative, polysynthetic language with complex morphophonology and a rich set of glottal and ejective consonants. The term K'iche’ (often written with an apostrophe as Kʼicheʼ) denotes both the language and its speakers in the region where it is most widely used.
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