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Q'eqchi'

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Q'eqchi' (K'ekchi' in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of Guatemala and Belize. [1]

33 relations: Alta Verapaz Department, Baja Verapaz Department, Bartolomé de las Casas, Belize, Belizean Creole, Campeche, Chiapas, Cristina Coc, Departments of Guatemala, Eastern Orthodox Church, English language, Equator Prize, Ethnologue, Evangelicalism, Goldman Environmental Prize, Guatemala, Izabal Department, Maya peoples, Maya religion, Mennonites, Northern Illinois University Press, Oriental Orthodoxy, Petén Department, Q'eqchi' language, Quiché Department, Rodrigo Tot, SIL International, Spanish conquest of Guatemala, Spanish language, The Reporter (Belize), Toledo District, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Texas Press.

Alta Verapaz Department

Alta Verapaz is a department in the north central part of Guatemala.

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Baja Verapaz Department

Baja Verapaz is a department in Guatemala.

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.

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Belize

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.

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Belizean Creole

Belize Kriol (also Kriol or Belizean Creole) is an English-based creole language closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, Jamaican Patois, San Andrés-Providencia Creole, Bocas del Toro Creole, Colón Creole, Rio Abajo Creole and Limón Coastal Creole.

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Campeche

Campeche, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche (Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Chiapas

Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that with Mexico City make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Cristina Coc

Cristina Coc (born 1981) is a Ketchi Maya woman from Belize, who is a leader of the Maya community in southern Belize.

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Departments of Guatemala

Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which are in turn divided into 340 municipalities.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Equator Prize

The, organized by the Equator Initiative within the United Nations Development Programme,, UNDP Newsroom, September 20, 2010 is awarded biennially to recognize outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Izabal Department

Izabal is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Maya peoples

The Maya peoples are a large group of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

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Maya religion

The traditional Maya religion of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, and Yucatán regions of Mexico is a southeastern variant of Mesoamerican religion.

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Mennonites

The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (which today is a province of the Netherlands).

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Northern Illinois University Press

Northern Illinois University Press is a publisher and part of Northern Illinois University.

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Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy is the fourth largest communion of Christian churches, with about 76 million members worldwide.

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Petén Department

Petén is a department of the Republic of Guatemala.

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Q'eqchi' language

The Q'eqchi' language, also spelled Kekchi, K'ekchi', or kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages, spoken within Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala and Belize.

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Quiché Department

Quiché is a department of Guatemala.

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Rodrigo Tot

Rodrigo Tot (born c.1958) is a farmer and indigenous leader in Guatemala.

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SIL International

SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.

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Spanish conquest of Guatemala

The Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, in which Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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The Reporter (Belize)

The Reporter is one of the chief newspapers of Belize.

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Toledo District

Toledo District is the southernmost district in Belize, and Punta Gorda the District capital.

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University of Oklahoma Press

The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Redirects here:

K'ekchi, Kekchi, Kekchi people, Kekchí, Q'eqchi, Q'eqchi' people, Qeqchi.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q'eqchi'

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