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The Mayan culture features 32 different languages, two of which are extinct. The rest fall into six branches and are predominantly spoken in Central American countries, such as Guatemala — which is where Bilma Pedro was born and raised. There, in her small village, she spoke Q’anjob’al. The Indigenous language has 26 consonant sounds and five vowel sounds — as compared to 24 and 20, respectively, in English — and