What is Qʼeqchiʼ?
{{Infobox Ethnic group |image = Kek'Chi Maya Children.jpg |image_caption = Young Q'eqchi' Maya children, Belize | group = Q´eqchi´ | population = 900,001<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html |title=XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico |accessdate=2008-05-27 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |year=2002 |archive-date=2011-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222054745/http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> | region1 = {{flag|Guatemala}} | pop1 = 852,998 | ref1 = | region2 = {{flag|Belize}} | pop2 = 11,143 | ref2 = | region3 = {{flag|Mexico}} | pop3 = 834 | ref3 = | region4 = {{flag|El Salvador}} | pop4 = 245 | ref4 = | region5 = {{flag|Honduras}} | pop5 = ? | ref5 = | region6 = | pop6 = | ref6 = | region7 = | pop7 = | ref7 = | region8 = | pop8 = | ref8 = | region9 = | pop9 = | ref9 = | region10 = | pop10 = | ref10 = | languages = [[Q'eqchi' language|Q'eqchi']], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Belizean Creole|Kriol]], [[English language|English]] | religions = [[Catholic]], [[Evangelicalism|Evangelicalist]], [[Mennonite]], [[Maya religion]] | related = | footnotes = }} '''Q'eqchi<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' (K'ekchi<nowiki>'</nowiki>, or simply Kekchi) are one of the [[Maya peoples]] in [[Guatemala]] and [[Belize]]. Their language is also called [[Q'eqchi' language|Q'eqchi']]. Before the Spanish came in the 1520s, Q'eqchi' were mostly in what are now the departments of [[Alta Verapaz]] and [[Baja Verapaz]] in Guatemala. With the activity the Q'eqchi' moved into other regions of Guatemala, southern Belize, and smaller numbers in [[El Salvador]], [[Honduras]] and southern Mexico. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Nort