Jumaytepeque Xinka

 [aka Jumay Xinka, Xinca de Jumaytepeque]

Classification: Xincan

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

Jumay Xinka, Xinca de Jumaytepeque

Xincan

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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 erroneously 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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