and Garifunas are recognized as national languages. Mil Milagros (2020). "Indigenous languages in Guatemala". "Ley de Idiomas Nacionales, Decreto Número...
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The Mayan languages form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica, both in the south of Mexico and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken...
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Amerindian languages are spoken by more than 40% of the population. 21 Mayan languages, one indigenous, and one Arawakan are spoken in Guatemala. The most...
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national language mostly out of respect to the indigenous communities that still exist. Most indigenous languages are endangered, with some languages expected...
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Guatemalan Sign Language or Lensegua (Spanish: Lengua de señas guatemalteco) is the proposed national deaf sign language of Guatemala, formerly equated...
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Guatemalans (Spanish: guatemaltecos or less commonly guatemalenses) are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential...
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languages, the reasonably healthy linguistic population and the relative ease of access to Guatemala, Jakaltek has become a favorite of students of linguistic...
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BC. Several pre-Roman languages (also called Paleohispanic languages)—some distantly related to Latin as Indo-European languages, and some that are not...
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specific persons, see List of Guatemalans. Note that there is no language called "Guatemalan". See Languages of Guatemala. Guatemalan cuisine This disambiguation...
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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...
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the Quichean–Mamean branch of the Mayan languages family. It is spoken by the indigenous Kaqchikel people in central Guatemala. It is closely related to...
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national sign languages of Mexico (Mexican Sign Language) and Guatemala (Guatemalan Sign Language), as well as to the local spoken Mayan languages and Spanish...
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highlands in Guatemala and Mexico. With over a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), Kʼicheʼ is the second most widely-spoken language in the...
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The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages from the Quichean branch, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ communities...
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Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by...
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natively as Qa'yol) is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala, primarily in Huehuetenango and around Aguacatán. The language only has fewer than 10,000 speakers...
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north coast of Honduras from where the language and Garifuna people has since spread along the coast south to Nicaragua and north to Guatemala and Belize...
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official march of the national flag and the president of Guatemala Problems playing this file? See media help. The flag of Guatemala, often referred...
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is a Mayan language, closely related to Poqomchiʼ. It is spoken by 50,000 or so people in several small pockets in Guatemala, the largest of which is in...
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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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speakers in Guatemala. Even though Guatemala has established Spanish as its official language, it supports the teaching of these native languages. The majority...
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Presidente de Guatemala), officially titled President of the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and...
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family of Mesoamerican languages, formerly regarded as a single language isolate, once spoken by the Indigenous Xinca people in southeastern Guatemala, much...
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endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss...
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Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the national capital and largest city of the Republic...
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Xincan language of Guatemala, from the region of Chiquimulilla. Chiquimulilla was formerly spoken by Xinca people on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. The...
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is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico and Guatemala. It is the primary language of the Ixil people, which mainly comprises the three towns of San Juan Cotzal...
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Mam is a Mayan language spoken by about half a million Mam people in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu...
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extinct Xincan language of Guatemala, from the region of Yupiltepeque. Campbell 1997:166 Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical...
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Kanjobalan–Chujean languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Mexico and Guatemala. All Q'anjobalan languages are spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, four languages of the...
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