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'Classical Quiché' is the term used to describe an ancestral form of the modern-day K'iche' language (''Quiché'' in the older Spanish-basedorthography), which was spoken in the highland regions of Guatemala around the time of the 16th century Spanish colonization of the Americas. Classical Quiché has been preserved in a number of historical Mesoamerican documents, lineage histories, missionary texts and dictionaries, and is the language in which the renowned highland Maya creation account ''Popol Vuh'' (or ''Popol Wuj'' in modern orthography) is written.

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