Salvadoran Lenca

Lencan
Native to	El Salvador
Ethnicity	Lenca people
Native speakers	1 (2012)[1]
Language family	Lencan Lencan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	lenc1243[2]

Salvadoran Lenca was spoken in Chilanga and Potó. Lencans had arrived in El Salvador about 2,000 years B.P. and founded the site of Quelepa. One speaker remains in Poto.

Lenca Potón

As of 2012, Mario Salvador Hernández of Guatajiagua is the last speaker of Lenca Potón, which differs from the version spoken in Chilanga, where the language has disappeared. Research in 2004 by the University of Central America recorded 380 words, five vowels and 16 consonants, alternation between “g” and “k”, with reduplication to create plurals from singular forms.^[1]

References

1. Liliana Fuentes Monroy (2012). "Buscan rescatar lengua potón". La Prensa. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lenca-Salvador". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Roque, Consuelo; Manuel Antonio Ramírez Suárez (2004). Cultura lenca de Guatajiagua. Universidad de El Salvador. ISBN 978-99923-27-20-3. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
• Campbell, Lyle. 1976. "The Last Lenca". International Journal of American Linguistics 42(1): 73–78.