Guatemalan Spanish

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Guatemalan Spanish is the national variant of Spanish spoken in the Central American republic of Guatemala. About 9 million of the 13 million population speak Spanish. It includes the use of the second-person singular personal pronoun vos alongside the standard Spanish second-person singular pronouns and usted to form a three-level system of second-person singular address,[1] all of which would be translated as "you" in English.

Vocabulary

Local words include

  • a la gran – oh my God
  • bolo – drunk
  • caite – sandal
  • chapín – Guatemalan
  • chish - interjection signifying disgust[2]
  • chucho - dog (literally "choo-cho")
  • cincho - belt
  • canche – blonde(not used in all of Guatemala)
  • cabal – right on
  • colocho - curly (usually when speaking of hair)
  • ishto - kid (brat) (not used in all of Guatemala, varies from regions)
  • mosh - oat porridge (not used in all of Guatemala, more formally used and said is "avena")
  • patojo – child (young people)
  • pisto - money
  • pajilla - straw
  • poporopo - popcorn
  • shuco - dirty (not to be confused with a type of hot-dog of the same name native only to Guatemala City)

There are also many words unique to Central America, for example, chunche or chochadas or babosadas means "thing" or stuff in some places.[citation needed] The words used to describe children (or kids) vary among the countries in Central America; in Guatemala they are often called patojos. Cipotes is also used in Guatemala in the eastern departments. In the western and northern departments of Guatemala "chamacos" is used to say children or kids. In Guatemala and Honduras the word güiros is also used.[citation needed] In Guatemala (also in Honduras and El Salvador) money is called pisto, a term originally used by Maya peoples in Guatemala.[3]

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