Guazacapán is a moribund or extinct
Xincan language that was spoken in the region of
Guazacapán
Guazacapán () is a town located in Santa Rosa Department in south-west Guatemala.
Guazacapán is also the name of the municipality in Santa Rosa Department around the town of Guazacapán. The municipality of Guazacapán covers an area of 130&nbs ...
in
Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala
Santa Rosa () is a department in Guatemala. The capital is Cuilapa.
History 1913 earthquake
On Saturday 8 March 1913, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Santa Rosa, destroying its department capital, Cuilapa. Both the initial quake and the af ...
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It has only a single semi-speaker as of 2014.
References
* Campbell, Lyle (1997). ''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America''. New York: Oxford University Press. .
External links
Xinca Guazacapán resources in the
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository housed in LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin. AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digi ...
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Xinca Guazacapán 1Xinca Guazacapán 2Xinca Guazacapán 3Juan Benito 1 and 2
Xincan languages
Languages extinct in the 1990s
Languages of Guatemala
Extinct languages of North America
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