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[[Endangered Languages in Central America]] a subpage of [[User:Ling.Nut/ELLR|WikiProject endangered languages and language revitalization]] <br>

{{Language Endangerment status}}

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An [[endangered language]] is a [[language]] that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an [[extinct language]]. [[UNESCO]] defines [[Endangered language#UNESCO definitions|four levels of language endangerment]] between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":<ref name="UNESCO">

{{cite book |year=2010 |editor-last=Moseley |editor-first=Christopher |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/endangered-languages/atlas-of-languages-in-danger/ |series=Memory of Peoples |edition=3rd |___location=Paris |publisher=UNESCO Publishing |isbn=978-92-3-104096-2 |access-date=2015-04-11 }}</ref>

* Vulnerable

* Definitely endangered

* Severely endangered

* Critically endangered

[[Central America]] ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Centroamérica'' or ''América Central'') is a central [[geography|geographic]] [[region]] of the [[Americas]]. It is variably defined either as the southern portion of [[North America]], which connects with [[South America]] on the southeast, or as a region of the American continent in its own right.<ref>[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574502/Central_America.html Central America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028044640/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574502/Central_America.html |date=2009-10-28 }}, ''MSN Encarta''. Accessed on line January 10, 2008. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028044640/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574502/Central_America.html Archived] 2009-10-31.</ref><ref>"Central America", vol. 3, Micropædia, ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica'', Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1990, 15th ed. {{ISBN|0-85229-511-1}}.</ref>

'''Note:'''

*The contents of the tables need to be checked -- probably many of these are now [[extinct language]]s.

*Languages known to be extinct will receive an explicit value of '''0''' in the '''Speakers''' column, with appropriate referencing as a footnote, for later removal to a separate page.

* The '''Source''' provides one source which identifies this language as endangered. The source of specific population information should be provided as a footnote in the '''Speakers''' field.

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!Country

!Language

===[[Costa Rica]]===

!Ethnonym

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!Speakers

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!Source

|+'''Costa Rica'''

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!width="20%"|Language

!width="20%"|Ethnonym

!width="15%"|Speakers

!width="15%"|Source

!width="5%"|ISO 639-3

!width="30%"|Ethnologue entry

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|<!--Costa Language -->Rica||[[Boruca language|Boruca]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers -->5 women (1986 SIL)<br>30 to 35 nonfluent speakers 1,000 (1991).||<!-- Source(1986 -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||SIL)<!-- ISO 639-3 --br>||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=brn|label=}}(1991)

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|El Salvador||[[Pipil language|Pipil]]|| ||20<br>196,576||(1987)<br>(1987)

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===[[El Salvador]]===

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|Guatemala||<!-- Language -->[[Itza' language|Itza']]|| ||12<br>1,800||(1986 SIL)<br>(2001)

|+'''El Salvador'''

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|Nicaragua||<!-- Language -->[[Rama language|Rama]]|| ||24 <br>900||(1989 J Holm)<br>(2000 C Grinevald)

!width="20%"|Language

!width="20%"|Ethnonym

!width="15%"|Speakers

!width="15%"|Source

!width="5%"|ISO 639-3

!width="30%"|Ethnologue entry

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|<!-- Language -->[[Lenca language]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers --> 36,858 in El Salvador (1987).||<!-- Source -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||<!-- ISO 639-3 -->||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=len|label=}}

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|<!-- Language -->[[Pipil language]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers -->20 (1987) 196,576 (1987)||<!-- Source -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||<!-- ISO 639-3 -->||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=ppl|label=}}

|-

|}

===[[Guatemala]]===

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|+'''Guatemala'''

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!width="20%"|Language

!width="20%"|Ethnonym

!width="15%"|Speakers

!width="15%"|Source

!width="5%"|ISO 639-3

!width="30%"|Ethnologue entry

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|<!-- Language -->[[Itza' language]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers -->12 (1986 SIL) 1,800 (2001).||<!-- Source -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||<!-- ISO 639-3 -->||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=itz|label=}}

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===[[Honduras]]===

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|+'''Honduras'''

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!width="20%"|Language

!width="20%"|Ethnonym

!width="15%"|Speakers

!width="15%"|Source

!width="5%"|ISO 639-3

!width="30%"|Ethnologue entry

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|<!-- Language -->[[Lenca language]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers -->Only a few speakers in Honduras (1993 Ramon D Rivas) 100,000.||<!-- Source -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||<!-- ISO 639-3 -->||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=len|label=}}

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|Panama||[[San Miguel Creole French]]|| ||3||(1999 SIL)

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===[[Nicaragua]]= References ==

{{Reflist}}

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|+'''Nicaragua'''

[[Category:Lists of endangered languages|Central America]]

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[[Category:Central America-related lists|Endangered languages]]

!width="20%"|Language

!width="20%"|Ethnonym

!width="15%"|Speakers

!width="15%"|Source

!width="5%"|ISO 639-3

!width="30%"|Ethnologue entry

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|<!-- Language -->[[Rama language]]||<!-- Ethnonym -->||<!-- No. Speakers -->24 (1989 J Holm) 900 (2000 C Grinevald).||<!-- Source -->[http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp Ethnologue]||<!-- ISO 639-3 -->||<!-- Ethnologue entry -->{{ethnologue2|code=rma|label=}}

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