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.",
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."",