For the past few years I’ve been studying the K’iche’ language with the help of a friend from Cantel, Quetzaltenango. I’ve collected here some resources that might be of use to other K’iche’ learners. If you are learning, please reach out if you have others, or if you’d just like to chat!
The best short introduction to K’iche’, created by the University of Texas Center for Open Educational Resources.
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/christenson/quidic_complete.pdf
An English-K’iche’ dictionary, created by Allen Christenson at Brigham Young University.
https://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PV-Literal.pdf
A side-by-side literal translation of perhaps the most important piece of indigenous literature in the Western Hemisphere, the Popol vuh. Some of the vocabulary is out of use, but much of it can be read with intermediary knowledge of contemporary K’iche’.
Speaking of the Popol vuh, the Universidad Francisco Marroquin has digitized the collected works of Guillermo Grajeda Mena, one of Guatemala’s most important plastic artists and head of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala. His illustrations of the Popol vuh are mesmerizing.
