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- Guatemalan Sign Language or "Lengua de Señas de Guatemala" is the proposed national deaf sign language of Guatemala, formerly equated by most users and most literature equates with the sign language known by the acronymic abbreviations LENSEGUA, Lensegua, and LenSeGua. Recent legal initiatives have sought to define the term more inclusively, so that it encompasses all the distinctive sign languages and sign systems native to the country. The first dictionary for LENSEGUA was published in 2000, and privileges the eastern dialect used largely in and around Guatemala City and by non-indigenous Ladino and mestizo populations in the eastern part of the country. A second dialect is "spoken" in the western part of the country, especially by non-Indigenous mestizo and Ladino populations in and around the country's second largest city, Quetzaltenango, located in the western highlands. The eastern and western dialects are mutually intelligible for the most part, although they employ slightly different signed-alphabets, lexicons, and, to a lesser extent, grammatical forms. In her still-unpublished 2015 doctoral dissertation Linguistic anthropologist Monica Rodríguez noted that there exists some competition between the two dialects. The competition is based not only on loyalty to local variants, but also mutual suspicion that exogenous influences in other dialects are excessive. The presumption is that the different LENSEGUA dialects evidence formative influence from other sign languages, such as Old Costa Rican Sign Language and American Sign Language (ASL), not to mention indigenous substrate sign languages of the region. LENSEGUA is distinct from the sign languages used in Mexico and other neighboring Spanish speaking countries. Lensegua is also distinct from the sign languages used by Indigenous populations of Guatemala and neighboring countries, such as those belonging to the family of related sign languages used by Mayas in the Yucatán Peninsula, Chiapas, and Guatemala, respectively, which have come to be known collectively by the misnomer Mayan sign languages, even though none of the sign languages actually belongs to Mayan language family. A notable difference between LENSEGUA and indigenous sign languages of the region is that LENSEGUA has a manual alphabet and makes use of initialized signs and finger-spellings. For Deaf education, a number of schools, organizations, and service programs in Guatemala not only teach LENSEGUA, but use it their primary language for instruction. Although LENSEGUA holds no official status, municipal and departmental governments have largely allowed language promoters to teach basic lessons on and about LENSEGUA to hearing children in primary and secondary schools across the country, even in indigenous communities, where other indigenous sign languages might be used. (en)
- El lenguaje de señas guatemalteco (Lensegua) es la lengua de señas utilizada en Guatemala. El primer diccionario fue publicado en el año 2000. Difiere de la lengua de señas mexicana y otros países hispanohablantes, y de la lengua de señas yucateca utilizado en el altiplano occidental de Guatemala. (es)
- La langue des signes guatémaltèque (en espagnol : Lenguaje de señas guatemalteco ou Lengua de señas de Guatemala, LenSeGua), est la langue des signes utilisée par les personnes sourdes et leurs proches au Guatemala. (fr)
- A Língua Gestual da Guatemala (no Brasil: Língua de Sinais da Guatemala) é a língua gestual através da qual a comunidade surda da Guatemala se comunica. O seu primeiro dicionário foi criado em 2000. (pt)
- Гватемальский жестовый язык (Guatemalan Sign Language, Lensegua; исп. Lenguaje de señas guatemalteco, Lengua de señas de Guatemala) — национальный жестовый язык, который распространён среди глухих, проживающих в Гватемале. Первый словарь языка был опубликован в 2000 году. Гватемальский жестовый язык отличается от других жестовых языков, используемых в Мексике и других испаноязычных странах, а также от , который используется среди народа киче, проживающего в сельских районах Гватемалы. Многие глухие изучают гватемальский жестовый язык в подростковом возрасте или позже, после первоначального воздействия испанского или другого местоного языка. Гватемальский жестовый язык также изучают и некоторые слышащие люди, чаще всего родственники глухих. (ru)
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- El lenguaje de señas guatemalteco (Lensegua) es la lengua de señas utilizada en Guatemala. El primer diccionario fue publicado en el año 2000. Difiere de la lengua de señas mexicana y otros países hispanohablantes, y de la lengua de señas yucateca utilizado en el altiplano occidental de Guatemala. (es)
- La langue des signes guatémaltèque (en espagnol : Lenguaje de señas guatemalteco ou Lengua de señas de Guatemala, LenSeGua), est la langue des signes utilisée par les personnes sourdes et leurs proches au Guatemala. (fr)
- A Língua Gestual da Guatemala (no Brasil: Língua de Sinais da Guatemala) é a língua gestual através da qual a comunidade surda da Guatemala se comunica. O seu primeiro dicionário foi criado em 2000. (pt)
- Guatemalan Sign Language or "Lengua de Señas de Guatemala" is the proposed national deaf sign language of Guatemala, formerly equated by most users and most literature equates with the sign language known by the acronymic abbreviations LENSEGUA, Lensegua, and LenSeGua. Recent legal initiatives have sought to define the term more inclusively, so that it encompasses all the distinctive sign languages and sign systems native to the country. (en)
- Гватемальский жестовый язык (Guatemalan Sign Language, Lensegua; исп. Lenguaje de señas guatemalteco, Lengua de señas de Guatemala) — национальный жестовый язык, который распространён среди глухих, проживающих в Гватемале. Первый словарь языка был опубликован в 2000 году. Гватемальский жестовый язык отличается от других жестовых языков, используемых в Мексике и других испаноязычных странах, а также от , который используется среди народа киче, проживающего в сельских районах Гватемалы. (ru)
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