Original: Genealogies of the tribes Preamble Here are the opening lines, in modernized spelling and punctuation (from Sam Colop's edition):Colop 1999 and an English translation Are uxe‘ ojer tzij waral K‘iche‘ ub‘i‘.
Simplified: Excerpt Here are the opening lines of the book, in modernized spelling and punctuation (from Sam Colop's edition): Are uxe‘ ojer tzij waral K‘iche‘ ub‘i‘. Waral xchiqatz‘ib‘aj wi xchiqatikib‘a‘ wi ojer tzij, utikarib‘al uxe‘nab‘al puch rnojel xb‘an pa tinamit K‘iche‘ ramaq‘ K‘iche‘ winaq.