lang_description: "An awakening language which lacked native speakers starting in the 1970's",
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 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: [
{
id:25634,
code_id:9709,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:90420,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:25654,
code_id:9709,
speaker_number: "Awakening",
speaker_number_text: "",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "Possibly exist",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "'Rememberers'",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2010",
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.",