Lenca language

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The Lenca language is an unclassified indigenous language of Mesoamerica, spoken (or formerly spoken) by the indigenous Lenca peoples in a region encompassed by western Honduras and portions of El Salvador, Central America. It has been regarded as an endangered language, and is quite possibly extinct. The language is extinct in Honduras, according to Lyle Campbell, though some older people remembered large word lists in the 1970s when he worked there. It was, at that time, still spoken in El Salvador.

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• Ethnologue entry on Lenca