Guatemalan Spanish
Guatemalan Spanish () is the national variant of Spanish spoken in the Central American country of Guatemala. About 13.7 million of the 17 million population speak Spanish. It includes the use of the second-person singular personal pronoun alongside the standard Spanish second-person singular pronouns and to form a three-level system of second-person singular address. Grammar. Guatemalan Spanish uses , alongside and as second-person singular pronouns. In Guatemala and El Salvador, indefinite articles are commonly placed before a possessive pronoun, as in . Very rarely a demonstrative can go before the possessive pronoun, like . This construction was  occasional in Old Spanish and still found in Judaeo-Spanish, but its frequency in El Salvador and Guatemala is due to similar constructions being found in various Mayan languages. Vocabulary. A number of words widely used in Guatemala which have Mayan or other native origins, in particular names for flora, fauna and toponyms. Some of these words are used in most, or all, Spanish-speaking countries, like "chocolate" and "aguacate" ("avocado"), and some are only used in Mexico and most Central American countries, like Guatemala and El Salvador. The latter include "guajolote" "turkey" < Nahuatl "huaxōlōtl" (although "chompipe" is also  used; "pavo" is also used, as in other Spanish-speaking countries); "papalote" "kite" < Nahuatl "pāpālōtl" "butterfly"; and "jitomate" "tomato" < Nahuatl "xītomatl" . For a more complete list see List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin. Local words include There are also many words unique to Central America, for example, "chunche" or "chochadas" or "babosadas" means "thing" or "stuff" in some places. 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. In Guatemala (also in Honduras and El Salvador) people with money are said to have "pisto", a term originally used by Maya peoples in Guatemala.