With the digitalized study materials and online resources you will effectively learn to speak K´iche. Portuguese will obviously be much easier to learn with your Spanish background, and also have a greater degree of future use since it's spoken around the world in greater numbers than K'iche Maya. I think I am worried about the amount of time I will have to adapt to the new language and while 3-4 months sounds like a lot for Portuguese, it sounds so little for K'iche. K’iche’ is a minority language spoken in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala with about a million native speakers. When the Spaniards made their way to the Americas most of the creation and mythologies of the Mesoamerican people were erased/burned/beaten out of people and no longer exist. It’s not super in-depth, but like, it is a K’iche course. I think in my edit above I note the possibility of being a Peace Corps volunteer, and being offered one of the positions I applied for in there would change the conditions surrounding learning Portuguese or an indigenous language I think.

Do you just add the s? I am still figuring out if I am really planning on it or not. Maya K’iche’ (Qatzijob'al, or “our language” in K’iche’) is spoken by over one million people in the western highlands of Guatemala, and diasporic Mayan communities throughout Central and North America.Among the 29 officially recognized Mayan languages – spoken by some 6 million people – it is one of the largest.
I wasn't sure how many comments this would get, but let me contextualize it a little bit better - the MA program would have me learning the chosen language over this summer for a period of about 3-4 months, and, in terms of other possible career choices I applied for community health positions in the Peace Corps in three locations, my top two being Peru and Guatemala (both of which I have been to before for short periods). I made the the choice to study K'iche' over various other options, and it was an excellent decision. The “t” sort of sounds (the hard sort of sounds, yes I speak linguistics) are click sounding and the “m” sort of sounds (the lippy sounds that go from further back in the throat) are kind of sleepy and slow which I love. Although not everyone will speak K'iche it will at least be more useful than Portuguese.Depending on how well you do with learning languages Portuguese is easy to learn with a Spanish background. It’s also taught in Spanish so you probably will need a working knowledge of Spanish to be able to do the course. So, I am going to leave this as a mostly hypothetical question for you all, but what would you choose to do in my situation? Intransitive subjects and transitive objects are indexed using Set B markers. Would all ready knowing Spanish play into your decisions? K'iche speakers tend to also have decent Spanish, but it would likely be a major plus to be the guy who's talking to them in K'iche.The other point I'd make in favour of learning K'iche Maya is that Portuguese isn't going anywhere, and you can always learn it later and with ease. It looks as though they will have me in the pool for the Peru placement, as of yesterday (I should hear in March about that.) I found this more akin to our frequent auxiliary verbs and easier to memorize than, say, Latin conjugations.Are you planning on working in that area? In 10 years if you decide you want to learn Portuguese, you'll have no harder time doing it then than you would now. When I was in Guatemala working at a clinic, the staff who knew K'iche were more than happy to teach me greetings, so I think I understand the appreciation aspect of the speakers. The site may not work properly if you don't If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit Press J to jump to the feed. Verbs are agglutinating: you slap pre/suffixes into a root to indicate aspect, person, mood, etc. Aspect and mood are also indicated, as is The last morpheme on a verb, the so-called “status suffix,” is a portmanteau morph whose form determined by a rather complicated set of rules.


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