Guatemalan Spanish
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Guatemalan Spanish (Spanish: Español guatemalteco) is the national variant of Spanish spoken in the Central American country of Guatemala. While 93% of Guatemalans in total speak Spanish,[3] it is the native language of only 69% of the population due to the prevalence of languages in the indigenous Mayan and Arawakan families.[4] Guatemalans typically use the second-person singular personal pronoun vos alongside the standard Spanish second-person singular pronouns tú and usted to form a three-level system of second-person singular address.[5]
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Guatemalan Spanish | |
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Español guatemalteco | |
Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol ɣwatemalˈteko] |
Native to | Guatemala |
Region | Central American Spanish |
Native speakers | 7,2 million (2014)[1] 2,470,000 in Guatemala (2014) |
Early forms | |
Latin (Spanish alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Guatemala |
Regulated by | Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | es |
ISO 639-2 | spa[2] |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | es-GT |
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