Chiquimulilla Xinka
Facts
- Language: Chiquimulilla Xinka
- Alternate names: Chiguimuliya
- Language code: 2df
- Language family:
Xincan
(SIL classification)
- Number of speakers:
- Vulnerability: Awakening
- Script:
More information:
An awakening language which lacked native speakers starting in the 1970's Xinkan is a language family with four members: Guazacapán Xinka, Chiquimulilla Xinka, Jumaytepeque Xinka, and Yupiltepeque Xinka. Two of the four are extinct; the other two have only 3 elderly second language semi-speakers (Rogers 2010:3). Despite the very significant differences among these languages, and lack of mutual intelligibility, "Xinkan" is often talked of as though it were only a single language. For example, Ethnologue (2013) gives only a single "Xinca" [xin] language, with no known L1 speakers.