Mayan · ISO 639-3 cak
Kaqchikel Language Kaqchikel Chʼabʼäl
Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken by about 500,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Kaqchikel is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kaqchikel
Language family
- Mayan
- Core Mayan
- Quichean-Mamean
- Greater Quichean
- Core Quichean
- Cakchiquel-Tzutujil
- Kaqchikelic
- Kaqchikel
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Kaqchikel language
Kaqchikel (Kaqchikel Chʼabʼäl) is spoken by about 500,000 people, which makes it the 497th most spoken language in the world — just behind Iron Ossetic (538,000) and ahead of Yakut (450,000). It belongs to the Mayan language family and, more precisely, to the Kaqchikelic group within the Quichean-Mamean branch.
Where is Kaqchikel spoken?
Kaqchikel is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Guatemala (1.6 million).
Kaqchikel is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Guatemala.
Writing system and status
Kaqchikel is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are K'iche', Sacapulteco, Uspanteco and Ixil.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 cak.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.