El Salvador

Extensive List of Languages of El Salvador: Spoken and Extinct Languages

:: List of Languages ::

Cacaopera
[ccr] Extinct. Department of Morazán. Dialects: Similar to Matagalpa [mtn]. Classification: Misumalpan

Kekchí
[kek] 12,300 in El Salvador. Alternate names: Cacché, Quecchí. Classification: Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean, Kekchi

Lenca
[len] Ethnic population: 36,858 in El Salvador (1987). Town of Chilango. Classification: Unclassified Nearly extinct.

Pipil
[ppl] 20 (1987). Ethnic population: 196,576 (1987). Municipio of Dolores, Ocotepeque Department, near the El Salvador border. No remaining speakers in Honduras. Alternate names: Nahuat, Nawat. Dialects: Not intelligible with Isthmus Nahuatl [nhk] of Mexico. Classification: Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Pipil Nearly extinct.

Salvadoran Sign Language
[esn] Alternate names: El Salvadoran Sign Language. Classification: Deaf sign language

Spanish
[spa] 5,900,000 in El Salvador (1995). Alternate names: Castellano, Español. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian

:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/