[Alouette]

a 39-year-old Mayan whose native language is Quiche

Real men don't speak Quiche.

[AnAmericanMother]

I think they mean K'iché.

Some reporter somewhere can't spell . . . or else the speel chicker got loose on this one.

"Though estimates vary, the official Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG) finds 21 distinct Mayan languages (with others in Mexico and Belize). Mam, K'aqchikel, and Q'eqchí are spoken by, respectively, 700,000, 450,000 and 370,000 people; K'iché is spoken by more than a million. The firth largest, Q'anjob'al is spoken by just over 100,000 and other languages each by considerably less than 100,000." source

[AnAmericanMother]

Or Q'eqchí.

Not that I'd know either one if you hit me over the head with a dictionary. Even my Spanish is pretty rudimentary (and thoroughly contaminated by Latin.)

[Suzy Quzy]

I SWEAR I didn't read your post before I did mine...I SWEAR!!