Lencan languages
Moribund language family of Honduras and El Salvador / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lencan languages are a small linguistic family from Central America, whose speakers before the Spanish conquest spread throughout El Salvador and Honduras. But by the beginning of the 20th century, only two languages of the family survived, Salvadoran Lenca or Potón and Honduran Lenca, which were described and studied academically; Of them, only Salvadoran Lenca still has current speakers, despite the fact that indigenous people belonging to the Lenca ethnic group exceed between 37,000 and 100,000 people.[1][2][3]
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Lencan | |
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Ethnicity | Lenca people |
Geographic distribution | El Salvador and Honduras |
Linguistic classification | Macro-Chibchan ?
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ISO 639-3 | len |
Glottolog | lenc1239 |
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