lang_description: "Xinkan languages are currently represented by only 3 people, all of whom are second language users [semispeakers] of the language. (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 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:11961,
code_id:6195,
speaker_number: "None",
speaker_number_text: "0",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "2",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""There are two (semi)speakers of Guazacapán and three remembers [sic]. One of these semispeakers is quite efficient at remembering vocabulary and small amounts of grammar (amazingly, since it has been approximately 40+ years since he would have spoken any of the language); he too learned this language as a second language. In effect, there are no viable, fully competent speakers of any of the [Xinkan] languages today."",