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The 'Uspanteko' (Uspanteco, Uspanteko, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to K'iche'. It is spoken in the Uspantán and Playa Grande Ixcán[1] ''municipios'', in the Department El Quiché. It is notable for being the native language of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (The others are Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil) it distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.