Did you know Guazacapán Xinka is dormant?

Xinkan languages are currently represented by only 3 people, all of whom are second language users [semispeakers] of the language. (Rogers 2010:1)

ALSO KNOWN AS		Xinca de Guazacapán
CLASSIFICATION		Xincan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		qda
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		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.

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SEMI SPEAKERS
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"There are two (semi)speakers of Guazacapán and three remembers [sic]. One of these semispeakers is quite efficient at remembering vocabulary and small amounts of grammar (amazingly, since it has been approximately 40+ years since he would have spoken any of the language); he too learned this language as a second language. In effect, there are no viable, fully competent speakers of any of the [Xinkan] languages today."

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Two of the 4 Xinkan languages are extinct; the other 2 are very nearly so with only 1 or 2 semi-speakers each.

	2012	LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)				Institute for Language Information and Technology	Eastern Michigan University	http://llmap.org	Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie	Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.									14.057656,-90.497983
	2011	A comparative grammar of Xinkan					University of Utah		Christopher Rogers		0		"There are two (semi)speakers of Guazacapán and three remembers [sic]. One of these semispeakers is quite efficient at remembering vocabulary and small amounts of grammar (amazingly, since it has been approximately 40+ years since he would have spoken any of the language); he too learned this language as a second language. In effect, there are no viable, fully competent speakers of any of the [Xinkan] languages today."	2	Dormant ()	Two of the 4 Xinkan languages are extinct; the other 2 are very nearly so with only 1 or 2 semi-speakers each.	Guatemala	Guazacapán, Guatemala.
3	2014	Xinkan Verb Categorization: Morphosyntactic Marking on Intranstive Verbs	371-397	International Journal of American Linguistics	80				Rogers, Chris	Rogers, Chris. "Xinkan Verb Categorization: Morphosyntactic Marking on Intranstive Verbs." International Journal of American Linguistics 80.3 (2014): 371-397.	0	2014		1	Dormant ()

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