7,2 million (2014)[1] 2,470,000 in Guatemala (2014)
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Official language in
Guatemala
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Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1
es
ISO 639-2
spa[2]
ISO 639-3
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None
IETF
es-GT
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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]
^Spanish → Guatemala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
^"Indigenous languages in Guatemala | Mil Milagros, Inc". www.milmilagros.org. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
^"Guatemala", The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, 2023-08-29, retrieved 2023-09-05
^Pinkerton 1986, p. 690.
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