🇬🇹 What Language Do They Speak in Guatemala?
The short answer
Guatemala speaks Spanish — clear, measured, famously learner-friendly Spanish, which is why Antigua Guatemala became one of the world's great Spanish-school towns. Over 20 Mayan languages are spoken alongside it, including K'iche' and Q'eqchi', by roughly 40% of the population.
Worth knowing
- ●Antigua's language-school industry draws learners from every continent — small classes, low prices, gorgeous setting
- ●K'iche' has over a million speakers; the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation epic, was written in it
- ●Guatemalan Spanish uses vos alongside tú, like much of Central America
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