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Salvadoran Lenca was spoken in Chilanga and Potón. Lencans had arrived in El Salvador about 2,000 years B.C.E and founded the site of Quelepa. One speaker remains in Potón.^{[citation needed]}

Lencan
Native to	El Salvador
Ethnicity	Lenca people
Extinct	by 2007, some semi-speakers remain
Language family	Lencan Lencan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	lenc1243
ELP	Salvadoran Lenca
Lenca is an extinct language according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Salvadoran Lenca is of the small language family of Lencan languages that consists of two languages one of which is the Salvadoran Lenca and the Honduran Lenca. There have been attempts to link the Lencan languages to other languages within their groupings, but there has been no success. [1]

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants in Chilanga Lenca[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ		kʼ
Affricate			t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ
Fricative			s	ʃ		h
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r
Glide		w		j

Vowels

Vowels in Chilanga Lenca[2]

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

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.[3]

References

• 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.
• Del Río Urrutía, Ximena. 1999. El lenca de Chilanga. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 25. 193-209.
• Campbell, Lyle. 1976. "The Last Lenca". International Journal of American Linguistics 42(1): 73–78.

На других языках

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- [en] Salvadoran Lenca

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[es] Lenca salvadoreño

El lenca salvadoreño era una de las dos lenguas de las lenguas lencas hablados en Chilanga y Potó en El Salvador. La otra lengua lenca es el lenca hondureño. Los lencas llegaron al actual El Salvador hace aproximadamente 2.000 años a. C. Allí fundaron el sitio de Quelepa. En el 2012 quebaba solo un hablante del lenca salvadoreño, en Potó.

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[fr] Lenca du Salvador

Le lenca du Salvador est une langue amérindienne, de la famille des langues lencas parlée au Salvador. La langue est éteinte.

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