Guatemalan Spanish

Guatemalan Spanish
Guatemalan Spanish
Español guatemalteco
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol ɣwatemalˈteko]
Native to	Guatemala
Region	Central American Spanish
Native speakers	7,2 million (2014); 2,470,000 in Guatemala (2014)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish North American Spanish Central American Spanish Guatemalan Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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
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, it is the native language of only 69% of the population due to the prevalence of languages in the indigenous Mayan and Arawakan families. 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.