Lencan languages

Lencan
EthnicityLenca people
Geographic
distribution		El Salvador and Honduras
Linguistic classificationMacro-Chibchan ?
  • Lencan
Subdivisions
ISO 639-3len
Glottologlenc1239

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference auto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Pequeño vocabulario de la lengua lenca ; (dialecto de Guajiquiro)". Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection - CURIOSity Digital Collections. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  3. ^ Newson, Linda. El costo de la conquista. Editorial Guaymuras. ISBN 9789992615577.