Lencan languages
| Lencan | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | El Salvador and Honduras |
| Ethnicity | Lenca people |
| Linguistic classification | Macro-Chibchan ?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | len |
| Glottolog | lenc1239 |
 Map of El Salvador's Indigenous Peoples at the time of the Spanish conquest:
1. Pipil people, 2. Lenca people, 3. Kakawira o Cacaopera, 4. Xinca, 5. Maya Ch'orti' people, 6. Maya Poqomam people, 7. Mangue o Chorotega. | |
 Lenca is classified as Extinct according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Lencan languages are a small language family native to Central America, whose speakers lived throughout El Salvador and Honduras during the Pre-Columbian era. 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 the two, only Salvadoran Lenca still has speakers, despite the fact that there are between 37,000 and 100,000 people belonging to the Lenca ethnic group.