alternate_names: "Jumay Xinka; Xinca de Jumaytepeque",
lang_description: "Xinkan languages are currently represented by only three people, all of whom are second language users [semispeakers] of the languages. (Rogers 2010:1)",
classification: "Xincan",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "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.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:11962,
code_id:6196,
speaker_number: "None",
speaker_number_text: "0",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: "1",
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: ""Jumaytepeque is also essentially gone; there is one very elderly...second-language speaker and one rememberer of the language who can recall a handful of vocabulary items." (2010:3)",