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K'iche'

Family Maya

Speakers aged 3 and over
589

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
Very high

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade
  • Very high 3
  • High 0
  • Medium 0
  • No immediate risk 0
Status in Glottolog
Threatened

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 1 members with AES (1 in group): threatened=1

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets
Hugging Face
6

datasets focused on the language

50 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Models
Hugging Face
2

models focused on the language

118 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Speech corpus
Common Voice

Source does not cover this language

Source
common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail
none of 1 codes is a Common Voice locale
Treebanks
Universal Dependencies
1

released treebanks

Source
universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail
in release 2.18: UD_Kiche-IU (quc)
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR
1

varieties supported

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
1 of 1 codes supported: quc_Latn

Identity

Glottocode
kich1262
ISO 639-3
quc
Match to Glottolog
Exact: one Glottolog language
Glottolog languages in this group
  • quc K'iche' kich1262

Variants 3

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

VariantAutonymRisk
K’iche’ (central)K’iche’ (central)Very high
K’iche’ (occidentalK’iche’ (occidental)Very high
K’iche’ (oriental)K’iche’ (oriental)Very high