ELP ID
25654
ELP Language
Chiquimulilla Xinka
Speaker Number
Awakening
Semi Speakers
Possibly exist
Elders
'Rememberers'
Public Comment
Chiquimulilla has recently become extinct; the last fully fluent speakers survived to the late 1970s. Sachse (2010:58) on reporting about her personal fieldwork affirms that semispeakers of this variety of Xinkan were living as late as 2000-2003; however, it is not clear how the competency of these speakers is to be
measured from Sachses's report, principally because some of the reported speakers belong to the Guazacapán community and not the Chiquimulilla community.

Remembers are those older members of the Xinkan community who are themselves not speakers of any of the Xinkan languages, but who remember a relatively recent historical time when the Xinkan languages were used in public spheres of communication.
Source
A comparative grammar of Xinkan
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Range
Awakening