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Language Family Branch Native speakers % of total population Notes Spanish: Indo-European: Romance: 9,481,907 54.9254: Although Spanish is the official language, it is not spoken by the entire population, or else is used as a second language. There are twenty-four distinct indigenous languages spoken in Guatemala. Kʼicheʼ: Mayan: Kiche ...
Mayan languages are spoken by at least six million Maya people, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name, [1] [notes 2] and Mexico recognizes eight within its territory. The Mayan language family is one of the best-documented and most studied in the ...
Spanish is the official language. As a first and second language, Spanish is spoken by 93% of the population as second or third language. Twenty-one 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 ...
Sign languages of Guatemala (2 P) Pages in category "Languages of Guatemala" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
An example of text in a Mesoamerican language written in an indigenous Mesoamerican writing system. Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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]
The Indigenous peoples in Guatemala, also known as Native Guatemalans, are the original inhabitants of Guatemala, predating Spanish colonization.Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan peoples (Achi’, Akatec, Awakatec, Chalchitec, Ch’ortí, Chuj, Itzá, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kaq- chikel, K’iche, Mam, Mopan, Poqomam, Poqomchí, Q’anjob ...
The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages from the Quichean branch, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ communities in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. [ 3 ]