Dallas County is home to about 19,000 people from Guatemala, according to the 2021 Census population estimates. About 7,500 Mayan-language speakers live in the Dallas area.
Exposed to discrimination and isolation, indigenous Guatemalans in Dallas rely on each other to work, build businesses and rebuild their lives in a faraway country.José Luis AdrianoWhen Spanish-speaking immigrants from Latin America arrive in Dallas they face hurdles, but hardly anything is insurmountable: Spanish is widely used by hundreds of thousands of people.
At Guatemalan restaurants in the Dallas area, indigenous languages create a welcoming atmosphere where chatter effortlessly flows between customers and servers.” for “You look good/I like you” as they engage in lively conversations in K’iche’. “They have a hard time adapting to society. It is difficult for them. Most people coming from faraway villages don’t have access to formal education. Migrating here is difficult,” said Tania Hernández Álvarez, vice-consul of Guatemala in Dallas.
Often, staff have to call Mayan speakers from consulates in McAllen or Washington, D.C., to translate by phone. Being a polyglot has paid off. Today, Saquic and his brother Calixto Saquic own Pizza Large on Ross Avenue, near downtown Dallas. She came to the U.S. from Suchitepéquez, a Guatemalan state in which 38% of 555,000 people are Mayans, and more than 20,000 speak Kaqchikel, according to Guatemala’s National Statistics Institute. About 7.1% of the Guatemalan population speaks this language.
Calixto Saquic wears a suit and introduces himself as a businessman. As soon as he enters the kitchen, he gives instructions to his employees in K’iche’.Yet when he gives an interview in Spanish, he speaks slowly and with an accent.
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