| Guatemalan Spanish | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.