Languages
On the IMDb page for this film, the languages are listed as English and Spanish. Shouldn't they also include Mayan?
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Actually, I think the protagonists of the movie speak Nam, a language indigenous to Guatemala. In Spanish, people refer to these languages as "dialectos"but they aren't dialects. They are full-fledged languages and Guatemala has a lot of them. I teach English as a second language in a big city with a lot of immigration. Just last year for the first time, I had two darling six year old Guatemalan boys who spoke one of Guatemala's languages with their parents, and Spanish to others. They quickly learned English.
share"Although Spanish is the official language, it is not universally spoken among the indigenous population, nor is it often spoken as a second language by the elderly indigenous. Twenty-one Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian dialects, Xinca, an indigenous dialect, and Garifuna, an Arawakan dialect spoken on the Caribbean coast. According to Decreto Número 19-2003, twenty-three dialects are unrecognized as National Languages." - per Wkipedia
shareSubtitles on the DVD state they are speaking Quiché.
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