List of endangered languages in Central America

Extinct (EX)

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Endangered

Critically Endangered (CR)
Severely Endangered (SE)
Definitely Endangered (DE)
Vulnerable (VU)

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Safe

Safe (NE)

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Other categories

Revived (RE)
Constructed (CL)

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Related topics

Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Endangered Languages Project
Ethnologue
Unclassified language
List of languages by total number of speakers

UNESCO Atlas of the World's
Languages in Danger categories

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":^[1]

Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered

Central America (Spanish: Centroamérica or América Central) is a central geographic region of the Americas. It is variably defined either as the southern portion of North America, which connects with South America on the southeast, or as a region of the American continent in its own right.^[2]^[3]

Country	Language	Speakers	Source
Costa Rica	Boruca	5 women 30 to 35 nonfluent speakers	(1986 SIL) (1991)
El Salvador	Pipil	20 196,576	(1987) (1987)
Guatemala	Itza'	12 1,800	(1986 SIL) (2001)
Nicaragua	Rama	24 900	(1989 J Holm) (2000 C Grinevald)
Panama	San Miguel Creole French	3	(1999 SIL)

References

^ Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
^ Central America Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, MSN Encarta. Accessed on line January 10, 2008. Archived 2009-10-31.
^ "Central America", vol. 3, Micropædia, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1990, 15th ed. ISBN 0-85229-511-1.

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