List of endangered languages in Central America information
Language Endangerment Status
by UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger category
Extinct (EX)
Extinct (EX)
(lists)
Endangered
Critically Endangered (CR)
Severely Endangered (SE)
Definitely Endangered (DE)
Vulnerable (VU)
(list)
(list)
(list)
(list)
Safe
Safe (NE)
(lists)
Other categories
Revived (RE)
Constructed (CL)
(list)
(list)
Related topics
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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List of languages by total number of speakers
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":[1]
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
Central America (Spanish: Centroamérica or América Central) is a central geographic region of the Americas. It is variably defined either as the southern portion of North America, which connects with South America on the southeast, or as a region of the American continent in its own right.[2][3]
Country
Language
Ethnonym
Speakers
Source
Costa Rica
Boruca
5 women 30 to 35 nonfluent speakers
(1986 SIL) (1991)
El Salvador
Pipil
20 196,576
(1987) (1987)
Guatemala
Itza'
12 1,800
(1986 SIL) (2001)
Nicaragua
Rama
24 900
(1989 J Holm) (2000 C Grinevald)
Panama
San Miguel Creole French
3
(1999 SIL)
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Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
^Central America Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, MSN Encarta. Accessed on line January 10, 2008. Archived 2009-10-31.
^"Central America", vol. 3, Micropædia, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1990, 15th ed. ISBN 0-85229-511-1.
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