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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]
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast. According to the ...
Guatemalans (Spanish: guatemaltecos or less commonly guatemalenses) are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.
Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] is a country in Central America. ... Guatemala's sole official language is Spanish.
Pages in category "Languages of Guatemala" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Spanish language; T. Ta-Arawakan languages; Tektitek ...
Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Early European immigrants to Guatemala were Spaniards who conquered the indigenous Maya population in 1524. They ruled for almost 300 years. Although the Spanish conquest of Guatemala was primarily the result of its technical superiority, the Spaniards were helped by Nahua allies from central Mexico, and by indigenous Maya who were already involved in bitter struggles ...
The Ladino population in Guatemala is officially recognized as a distinct ethnic group, and the Ministry of Education of Guatemala uses the following definition: [3]. The ladino population has been characterized as a heterogeneous population which expresses itself in the Spanish language as a maternal language, which possesses specific cultural traits of Hispanic origin mixed with indigenous ...
A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.