Languages of El Salvador
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of El Salvador.]
Republic of El Salvador, República de El Salvador. 6,668,000. National or official language: Spanish. Literacy rate: 55%–63%. Immigrant languages: Central Pokomam, Turkish (500). Also includes Chinese (1,300). Blind population: 8,000. Deaf population: 150,000 to 348,804 (1998). Deaf institutions: 4. The number of individual languages listed for El Salvador is 6. Of those, 5 are living languages and 1 has no known speakers.
| Cacaopera | [ccr]
Extinct. Department of Morazán.
Dialects: Similar to Matagalpa [mtn].
Classification: Misumalpan
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| Kekchí | [kek]
12,300 in El Salvador.
Alternate names: Cacché, Quecchí.
Classification: Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean, Kekchi
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| Lenca | [len]
Ethnic population: 36,858 in El Salvador (1987). Town of Chilango.
Classification: Unclassified
Nearly extinct.
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| 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.
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| Salvadoran Sign Language | [esn]
Alternate names: El Salvadoran Sign Language.
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| 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
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