Moribund language family of Honduras and El Salvador
Lencan
Ethnicity
Lenca people
Geographic distribution
El Salvador and Honduras
Linguistic classification
Macro-Chibchan ?
Lencan
Subdivisions
Honduran Lencan †
Salvadoran Lencan
ISO 639-3
len
Glottolog
lenc1239
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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^Newson, Linda. El costo de la conquista. Editorial Guaymuras. ISBN 9789992615577.
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