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Ethnologue:

Languages of Honduras

Twentieth edition data

Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig, Editors

Based on information from the Ethnologue, 20th edition:

Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2017. Ethnologue:



Languages of the World, Twentieth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.

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Contents

List of Abbreviations

3

How to Use This Digest



4

Country Overview

6

Language Status Profile



7

Statistical Summaries

8

Alphabetical Listing of Languages



11

Language Map

14

Languages by Population



15

Languages by Status

16

Languages by Department



18

Languages by Family

19

Language Code Index



20

Language Name Index

21

Bibliography



22

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List of Abbreviations

A

Agent in constituent word order



alt.

alternate name for



alt. dial.

alternate dialect name for

C

Consonant in canonical syllable patterns



CDE

Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960)



Class

Language classification

CPPDCE

Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions



(2005)

CSICH


Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003)

dial.

primary dialect name for

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)



ILOCITP

ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal People no. 169 (1989)

km

kilometer(s)



L1 / L2

first language / second (or other additional) language



Lg Dev

Language development



Lg Use

Language use

m

meter(s)


P

Patient in constituent word order



pej.

pejorative

pl.

plural


S

Subject in constituent word order

sg.

singular


SIL

SIL International

SOV

Subject-Object-Verb



Type

Typological information

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)



UNSD

United Nations Statistics Division

USCB

United States Census Bureau



V

Vowel in canonical syllable patterns

VSO

Verb-Subject-Object



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How to Use This Digest

This Ethnologue country digest provides an extract of the information about the language situation

in Honduras that is published in the 20th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World (see

http://www.ethnologue.com

), including some ways of presenting the information that are not

available in the online version. The digest begins with a “Country Overview” (page

6

) and


“Statistical Summaries” (page

8

) of languages and number of speakers by language size, by



language status, and by language family.

The “Alphabetical Listing of Languages” (page

11

) provides detailed information on the 10



languages listed in the Ethnologue for the country of Honduras. This includes languages that are

either indigenous to the country or which immigrated in the past resulting in well-established

multigenerational speaker communities. A complete language entry has the following form and

content:


Primary language name

[ISO 639-3 code] (Alternate names). Autonym. Country

speaker population. Population stability comment. L2 population. Monolingual

population. Population remarks. Ethnic population. Location. Status: EGIDS level.

Language function in country. Class: Linguistic classification. Macrolanguage

membership. Dialects: Dialect names. Intelligibility and dialect relations. Lexical

similarity. Type: Linguistic typology information. Lg Use: Viability remarks.

Domains of use. User age groups. Language attitudes. Bilingualism remarks. Use

as second language. Lg Dev: Literacy rates. Literacy remarks. Use in elementary or

secondary schools. Publications and use in media. Revitalization efforts. Language

development agencies. Writing: Scripts used. Other: General remarks. Religion.

Worldwide: Total population in all countries. Other countries where used.

See


http://www.ethnologue.com/about/language-info

for a full description of these information

elements. If the autonym contains the "?” character, this indicates a complex non-Roman character

that the PDF-creating software we are using is not able to render. We regret the inconvenience.

Many ways of finding languages are provided. “Languages by Population” (page

15

) lists the



languages in order of their first-language speaker populations. “Languages by Status” (page

16

)



lists the languages by their level of development or endangerment as measured on EGIDS, the

Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (Lewis and Simons 2010). “Languages by

Department” (page

18

) lists the top-level administrative subdivisions of Honduras and the



languages located within each. “Languages by Family” (page

19

) lists the languages by their



linguistic classifications. “Language Code Index” (page

20

) gives an alphabetical listing of all the



three-letter codes from ISO 639-3 that are used in this digest to uniquely identify languages.

“Language Name Index” (page

21

) lists every name that appears in the language listings as a



primary or alternate name of a language or dialect. A total of 30 unique names are associated with

the 10 languages described in this digest.

Finally, a listing of all the published sources cited within this digest is found in “Bibliography”

(page


22

). The published sources are cited using standard in-text citations enclosed in parentheses,



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consisting of the author’s or editor’s surname followed by the year of publication. Unpublished

sources including personal communications and unpublished reports are also acknowledged when

specific statements or facts are attributed to them. They are identified using in-text citations

enclosed in parentheses in which the year of the communication is given first, followed by the

source’s first initial and surname. In such a case, there is no corresponding entry in the

bibliography.

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Country Overview

Name of country

Honduras

Other names

Republic of Honduras

Population

8,215,000 (2012 UNSD)

Principal language

Spanish

Literacy rate



87% (2014 USCB)

Immigrant languages

Arabic (42,000), Armenian (1,300), Yue Chinese (1,000)

Deaf population

18,000–70,000

International conventions CDE (2013), CPPDCE (2010), CSICH (2006), ICCPR (1997),

ILOCITP (1995), UNDRIP (2007)

General references

Campbell 1997, Campbell and Oltrogge 1980, Oltrogge 1977, Rivas

1993


Language counts

The number of individual languages listed for

Honduras is 10. All are living languages. Of

these, 8 are indigenous and 2 are non-

indigenous. Furthermore, 1 is institutional, 6 are

developing, and 3 are dying.

See the next page for an explanation of the summary categories for language vitality used in the

above counts and graph.



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Language Status Profile

The following histogram gives a graphic profile of languages in Honduras with respect to their

status of language development versus language endangerment. Each individual language that

appears in the “Alphabetical Listing of Languages” (page

11

) is included in the profile. The



horizontal axis represents the estimated level of development or endangerment as measured on the

EGIDS scale (Lewis and Simons 2010). The height of each bar indicates the number of languages

that are estimated to be at the given level. Consult “Languages by Status” (page

16

) in order to see



the specific languages for each level.

The color coding of the bars in the histogram above matches the color scheme used in the

summary profile graph on the preceding page. In this scheme, the EGIDS levels are grouped as

follows:


• Purple = Institutional (EGIDS 0-4) — The language has been developed to the point that it is

used and sustained by institutions beyond the home and community.

• Blue = Developing (EGIDS 5) — The language is in vigorous use, with literature in a

standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable.

• Green = Vigorous (EGIDS 6a) — The language is in vigorous use among all generations and

remains unstandardized.

• Yellow = In trouble (EGIDS 6b-7) — Intergenerational transmission is in the process of

being broken, but the child-bearing generation can still use the language so it is possible that

revitalization efforts could restore transmission of the language in the home.

• Red = Dying (EGIDS 8a-9) — The only fluent users (if any) are older than child-bearing age,

so it is too late to restore natural intergenerational transmission through the home; a

mechanism outside the home would need to be developed.

• Black = Extinct (EGIDS 10) — The language is no longer used and no one retains a sense of

ethnic identity associated with the language.



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Statistical Summaries

The “Alphabetical Listing of Languages” (page

11

) provides a detailed listing of all the languages



of Honduras. This section steps back from the detail to offer a summary view of the language

situation in the country. Specifically, it offers numerical tabulations of living languages and

number of speakers by language size, by language status, and by language family.

Summary by language size

Table 1 summarizes the distribution of living languages in Honduras by number of L1 speakers.

The Population range column categorizes the sizes of the languages by order of magnitude (in

terms of the number of digits in the population of first-language speakers). Consult “Languages by

Population” (page

15

) for a listing of the specific languages in each range category.



The Count column gives the number of living languages within the specified population range.

The Percent column gives the share of the count for that population range as a percentage of the

total number of languages given at the bottom of the Count column. The Cumulative column gives

the cumulative sum of the percentage of languages going from top to bottom in the column.

The Total column gives the total population of all the languages in the given range category.

The second Percent column gives the percentage of the total country population as estimated at the

bottom of the Total column. Note that if the table has a row for Unknown, representing languages

for which the Ethnologue does not have a population estimate, the calculation of population

percentage is not able to take those languages into account. The final Cumulative column gives the

cumulative sums of the population percentages going from top to bottom in the column.



Table 1: Distribution of languages by number of first-language speakers

Living languages

Number of speakers

Population range

Count Percent Cumulative

Total

Percent

Cumulative

1,000,000 to 9,999,999

1

10.0


10.0% 7,980,000

98.02777


98.02777%

10,000 to 99,999

3

30.0


40.0%

158,500


1.94704

99.97482%

100 to 999

3

30.0



70.0%

2,040


0.02506

99.99988%

10 to 99

1

10.0



80.0%

10

0.00012 100.00000%



0

1

10.0



90.0%

0

0.00000 100.00000%



Unknown

1

10.0



100.0%

Totals

10

100.0



8,140,550 100.00000

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Summary by language status

Table 2 summarizes the distribution of living languages in Honduras by their status in terms of

language development or language endangerment. The EGIDS column categorizes the languages

by their level on the EGIDS scale. Consult “Languages by Status” (page

16

) for a listing of the



specific languages that have been assigned to each level. Note that the EGIDS level reported here

is for the status of the language in Honduras. Languages that are also used in other countries may

be assigned to a different EGIDS level in those countries.

The next six columns are as in Table 1. In addition, the Mean column gives the average

population of all the languages with the given EGIDS level and the Median column gives the

median population for the languages at that level, that is, half of the languages at that level have a

higher population and half have a lower population. If there are any languages with an unknown

population, these are ignored in the calculation of the mean and the median.



Table 2: Distribution of languages by vitality status

Living languages

Number of speakers

EGIDS

Count Percent Cumulative

Total

Percent

Cumulative

Mean

Median

1

1



10.0

10.0% 7,980,000

98.0278

98.0278% 7,980,000 7,980,000



5

6

60.0



70.0%

159,550


1.9599

99.9877%


26,592

29,000


8a

1

10.0



80.0%

990


0.0122

99.9999%


990

990


8b

1

10.0



90.0%

10

0.0001



100.0000%

10

10



9

1

10.0



100.0%

0

0.0000



100.0000%

0

0



Totals

10

100.0



8,140,550 100.0000

Summary by language family

The genetic classifications given in the language entries of the “Alphabetical Listing of

Languages” (page

11

) name 8 different top-level genetic groups. Table 3 summarizes the



distribution of living languages and their populations within these families. The columns are as for

table 2, with the exception that Cumulative is excluded since there is no inherent ordering of the

families.

Table 3: Distribution of languages by language family

Living languages Number of speakers

Language family

Count

Percent

Total

Percent

Mean

Median

Chibchan


1

10.0


990

0.0


990

990


Indo-European

2

20.0 8,011,500



98.4 4,005,750 4,005,750

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Living languages Number of speakers

Language family

Count

Percent

Total

Percent

Mean

Median

Jicaquean

1

10.0


350

0.0


350

350


Lencan

1

10.0



0

0.0


0

0

Maipurean



1

10.0


98,000

1.2


98,000

98,000


Mayan

1

10.0



10

0.0


10

10

Misumalpan



2

20.0


29,700

0.4


14,850

14,850


Sign language

1

10.0 Unknown



Totals

10

100.0 8,140,550



100.0

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Alphabetical Listing of Languages

Ch’orti’

[caa]. 10 (1997 R. Reeck). Copán department: along Guatemala border. Status: 8b

(Nearly extinct). Class: Mayan, Yucatecan-Core Mayan, Core Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan,

Cholan, Chorti-Cholti. Type: VOS. Lg Dev: Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1997–2012. Writing:

Latin script. Map:

14

Worldwide: Total users in all countries: 30,010. Global EGIDS level: 5



(Developing). Also indigenous in: Guatemala.

English

[eng] (Inglés). Autonym: English. 31,500 (2001). 22,500 Bay Islands English speakers on

the north coast. Islas de la Bahía department: large cities along north mainland coast. Status: 5

(Dispersed). Class: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English. Dialect: Bay Islands English.



Type: SVO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before noun

heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes subject, object, indirect objects, given

and new information, topic and comment; active and passive; causative; comparative;

consonant and vowel clusters; 24 consonants, 13 vowels, 8 diphthongs; non-tonal; free stress;

phrasal verbs. Lg Use: Used as L2 by Garifuna [

cab


]. Lg Dev: Fully developed. Bible:

1382–2002. Writing: Braille script. Deseret Alphabet, developed in 1854 with limited usage

until 1877. Latin script, primary usage. Shavian (Shaw) script, no longer in use. Other: Non-

indigenous. Some creole influence. Map:

14

Worldwide: Total users in all countries:



983,522,920 (as L1: 371,959,910; as L2: 611,563,010). Global EGIDS level: 0 (International).

Indigenous in: Ireland, Isle of Man, United Kingdom. Also established in: American Samoa,

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize,

Bermuda, Bhutan, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei,

Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, China–Hong Kong,

Cook Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji,

Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guernsey, Guyana, India, Israel, Jamaica, Jersey,

Kenya, Kiribati, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta,

Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Montserrat, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands,

New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan,

Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint

Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands,

Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tokelau, Tonga,

Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United

Arab Emirates, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Immigrant language in: Andorra,

Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China–Macao, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark,

Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy,

Japan, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,

São Tomé e Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname,

Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Venezuela.

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Garifuna

[cab] (Black Carib, Caribe, Central American Carib, Island Carib). 98,000 (Rivas 1993).

100 monolinguals. Atlántida and Colón departments; Cortes department: north coast between

Masca and Plaplaya in Gracias a Dios department; Islas de la Bahía (Roatan island)

department; cities: La Ceiba, Puerto Cortés, San Pedro Sula, and Tegucigalpa; 37 villages.

Status: 5 (Developing). Class: Maipurean, Northern, Maritime, Ta-Maipurean, Iñeri. Dialects:

Western Garifuna, Eastern Garifuna. Eastern Garifuna dialect is in Honduras and Nicaragua

(leaves out, r, and tends to shorten words), Western Garifuna in Guatemala and Belize. Related

to Island Carib [car], with Spanish [

spa

], English [



eng

], and French [fra] borrowings. Type:

VSO. Lg Use: Shifting to Spanish [

spa


] in some villages. All domains. Positive attitudes. Also

use English [

eng

], Spanish [



spa

]. Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2:

5%–15%. Radio. Dictionary. Grammar. Texts. Bible: 2002. Writing: Latin script. Other:

Ancestors taken from Saint Vincent Island in 1796–1797, and taken to Roatan Island. Most

went to Trujillo, Honduras in 1937. About 35 years later political troubles threatened their

existence, and they fled further east into Honduras and Belize. Later they emigrated to other

countries. Christian, traditional religion. Map:

14

Worldwide: Total users in all countries:



175,000. Also indigenous in: Belize, Guatemala. Also established in: Nicaragua. Immigrant

language in: United States.



Honduras Sign Language

[hds] (Honduran Sign Language, LESHO, Lengua de Señas

Hondureñas). Scattered. Status: 5 (Developing). Class: Sign language. Dialects: None known.

Regional variations: deaf people along the North coast have some distinct signs from deaf

people in the southern part of the country. Lg Dev: At least 12 institutions offer primary

education for deaf Hondurans with Honduran Sign Language as their communication

philosophy.

Lenca

[len]. No known L1 speakers. Some semi-speakers (Adelaar 2007). Ethnic population:

100,000. Comayagua, Francisco Morazán, Intibucá, La Paz, Lempira, and Valle departments.

Status: 9 (Dormant). Class: Lencan. Dialects: None known. Some considered it Macro-

Chibchan. Writing: Unwritten.



Mayangna

[yan] (Sumu). 700 (1997 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,030 (McSweeney 2002). Colón

department: southeast corner; Gracias a Dios and Olancho departments: between Patuca and

Wanki rivers. Status: 5 (Dispersed). Class: Misumalpan. Dialect: Twahka. Type: SOV. Lg Use:

All ages. Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Dictionary. Bible: 1999. Writing: Latin

script. Map:

14

Worldwide: Total users in all countries: 8,700. Global EGIDS level: 2



(Provincial). Also indigenous in: Nicaragua.

Mískito

[miq] (Marquito, Mosquito, Mískitu, Mísquito). Autonym: Mískitu. 29,000 (Rivas 1993).

Colón department; Gracias a Dios and Olancho departments, south, Coco river watershed;

coastal area, and northwest from Puerto Lempira. Status: 5 (Dispersed). Class: Misumalpan.



Type: SOV; articles, relatives after noun heads, word order distinguishes subject and object;

verb affixes mark person and number; ergative; passive; CVC; nontonal. Lg Use: All ages.

Also use Spanish [

spa


]. Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–25%.

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Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1999. Writing: Latin script. Map:

14

Worldwide: Total users in



all countries: 143,000. Global EGIDS level: 2 (Provincial). Also indigenous in: Nicaragua.

Pech

[pay] (Paya, Seco). 990 (Rivas 1993). Ethnic population: 2,590 (Rivas 1993). Colón

department: near Caribbean coast; Olancho department: Dulce Nombre de Culmi and

Catamacas municipalities. Status: 8a (Moribund). Class: Chibchan, Chibchan B. Type: SOV.



Lg Use: Use Pech more in Agua Amarilla and La Laguna in El Carbón. Shifting to Spanish

[

spa



]. Older adults. Also use Spanish [

spa


]. Lg Dev: Grammar. Writing: Unwritten. Other:

Much community interest to preserve the Pech language, and some work is being done to

preserve it. Map:

14

.



Spanish

[spa] (Castellano, Español). Autonym: Castellano, Español. 8,128,000 in Honduras, all

users. L1 users: 7,980,000 (2011). L2 users: 148,000 (2011). Status: 1 (National). Statutory

national language (1982, Constitution, Article 6). Class: Indo-European, Italic, Romance,

Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian. Type: SVO;

prepositions; genitives, relatives after noun heads; articles, numerals before noun heads;

adjectives before or after noun heads depending on whether it is evaluative or descriptive;

question word initial; gender (masculine/feminine); definite and indefinite articles; verb affixes

mark number, person; passives; tense; comparatives; 20 consonants, 5 vowels, 5 diphthongs;

non-tonal; stress on penultimate syllable. Silbo Gomero whistled variety of Spanish used in

Canary Islands. Lg Dev: Fully developed. Bible: 1553–2012. Writing: Braille script. Latin

script, primary usage. Other: Non-indigenous. Worldwide: Total users in all countries:

527,976,150 (as L1: 436,667,750; as L2: 91,308,400). Global EGIDS level: 0 (International).

Indigenous in: Andorra, Gibraltar, Spain. Also established in: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia,

Caribbean Netherlands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic,

Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua,

Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States,

Uruguay, Venezuela. Immigrant language in: Algeria, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium,

Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland,

Germany, Guam, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands,

New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Sint Maarten,

Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, Western

Sahara.

Tol

[jic] (Jicaque, Tolpan, Xicaque). 350 (1997). Ethnic population: 19,600 (1990 Educación

Comunitaria para la Salud-Honduras). 19,000 in Yoro Department. Francisco Morazán

department: Montaña de la Flor and Yoro. Status: 5 (Developing). Class: Jicaquean. Dialects:

No distinct dialects. It may be distantly related to Subtiaba [sut] of Nicaragua (no remaining

speakers), Malinaltepec Me’phaa [tcf] of Mexico, or the Hokan languages. Type: SOV. Lg



Use: All ages. Also use Spanish [

spa


]. Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 5%–10%. Literacy rate in

L2: 5%–15%. Dictionary. NT: 1993–2010. Writing: Latin script. Other: Christian, traditional

religion. Map:

14

.



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13



Language Map

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14



Languages by Population

In this section the languages of Honduras are listed in order of their population of first-language

speakers within the country, from highest to lowest. The entries report just the population and

status elements.



1,000,000 to 9,999,999

Spanish

[

spa



] 7,980,000 (2011). L2 users: 148,000 (2011). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national

language (1982, Constitution, Article 6).



10,000 to 99,999

Garifuna

[

cab



] 98,000 (Rivas 1993). Population total all countries: 175,000. 100 monolinguals.

Status: 5 (Developing).

English

[

eng



] 31,500 (2001). 22,500 Bay Islands English speakers on the north coast. Status: 5

(Dispersed).



Mískito

[

miq



] 29,000 (Rivas 1993). Status: 5 (Dispersed).

100 to 999

Pech

[

pay



] 990 (Rivas 1993). Ethnic population: 2,590 (Rivas 1993). Status: 8a (Moribund).

Mayangna

[

yan



] 700 (1997 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,030 (McSweeney 2002). Status: 5

(Dispersed).



Tol

[

jic



] 350 (1997). Ethnic population: 19,600 (1990 Educación Comunitaria para la Salud-

Honduras). 19,000 in Yoro Department. Status: 5 (Developing).



10 to 99

Ch’orti’

[

caa



] 10 (1997 R. Reeck). Status: 8b (Nearly extinct).

0

Lenca

[

len



] No known L1 speakers. Some semi-speakers (Adelaar 2007). Ethnic population:

100,000. Status: 9 (Dormant).



Unknown

Honduras Sign Language

[

hds



Status: 5 (Developing).

Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

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Languages by Status

In this section the languages of Honduras are listed in order of their status within the country as

represented by their level on the EGIDs scale (Lewis and Simons 2010). The language entries are

reduced to just the information elements that are relevant to assessing the EGIDS level:

population, status, language use, language development, and writing.

1 (National)

Spanish

[

spa



] 7,980,000 (2011). L2 users: 148,000 (2011). Status: Statutory national language

(1982, Constitution, Article 6). Writing: Braille script. Latin script, primary usage.



5 (Developing)

Garifuna

[

cab



] 98,000 (Rivas 1993). Population total all countries: 175,000. 100 monolinguals. Lg

Use: Shifting to Spanish [

spa


] in some villages. All domains. Positive attitudes. Also use

English [

eng

], Spanish [



spa

]. Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2:

5%–15%. Radio. Dictionary. Grammar. Texts. Bible: 2002. Writing: Latin script.

Honduras Sign Language

[

hds



Lg Dev: At least 12 institutions offer primary education for deaf

Hondurans with Honduran Sign Language as their communication philosophy.



Tol

[

jic



] 350 (1997). Ethnic population: 19,600 (1990 Educación Comunitaria para la Salud-

Honduras). 19,000 in Yoro Department. Lg Use: All ages. Also use Spanish [

spa

]. Lg Dev:



Literacy rate in L1: 5%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Dictionary. NT: 1993–2010.

Writing: Latin script.

5 (Dispersed)

English

[

eng



] 31,500 (2001). 22,500 Bay Islands English speakers on the north coast. Lg Use:

Used as L2 by Garifuna [

cab

]. Writing: Braille script. Deseret Alphabet, developed in 1854



with limited usage until 1877. Latin script, primary usage. Shavian (Shaw) script, no longer in

use.


Mayangna

[

yan



] 700 (1997 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,030 (McSweeney 2002). Lg Use: All ages.

Lg Dev: Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Writing: Latin script.

Mískito

[

miq



] 29,000 (Rivas 1993). Lg Use: All ages. Also use Spanish [

spa


]. Lg Dev: Literacy

rate in L1: 1%–10%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–25%. Writing: Latin script.



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8a (Moribund)

Pech

[

pay



] 990 (Rivas 1993). Ethnic population: 2,590 (Rivas 1993). Lg Use: Use Pech more in

Agua Amarilla and La Laguna in El Carbón. Shifting to Spanish [

spa

]. Older adults. Also use



Spanish [

spa


]. Lg Dev: Grammar. Writing: Unwritten.

8b (Nearly extinct)

Ch’orti’

[

caa



] 10 (1997 R. Reeck). Writing: Latin script.

9 (Dormant)

Lenca

[

len



] No known L1 speakers. Some semi-speakers (Adelaar 2007). Ethnic population:

100,000. Writing: Unwritten.



Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

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Languages by Department

This index gives an alphabetical listing of the top-level administrative subdivisions within

Honduras. Under the name of each department is a list of the language communities that are

located within its area.



Atlántida

Garifuna [cab],

12

Colón

Garifuna [cab],

12

Mayangna [yan],



12

Mískito [miq],

12

Pech [pay],



13

Comayagua

Lenca [len],

12

Copán

Ch’orti’ [caa],

11

Cortés

Garifuna [cab],

12

Francisco Morazán

Lenca [len],

12

Tol [jic],



13

Gracias a Dios

Garifuna [cab],

12

Mayangna [yan],



12

Mískito [miq],

12

Intibucá

Lenca [len],

12

Islas de la Bahía

English [eng],

11

Garifuna [cab],



12

La Paz

Lenca [len],

12

Lempira

Lenca [len],

12

Olancho

Mayangna [yan],

12

Mískito [miq],



12

Pech [pay],

13

Valle

Lenca [len],

12

Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

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Languages by Family

This index gives an alphabetical listing of the linguistic classifications used for the languages of

Honduras. The entries in this index represent the full path in the linguistic family tree from the

highest level grouping down to the lowest. All the languages listed in the same entry are members

of the same lowest-level subgroup. The referenced page contains the main entry that describes the

language.



Chibchan, Chibchan B

Pech [pay],

13

Indo-European, Germanic, West, English

English [eng],

11

Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance,

West Iberian, Castilian

Spanish [spa],

13

Jicaquean

Tol [jic],

13

Lencan

Lenca [len],

12

Maipurean, Northern, Maritime, Ta-Maipurean, Iñeri

Garifuna [cab],

12

Mayan, Yucatecan-Core Mayan, Core Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Cholan, Chorti-Cholti

Ch’orti’ [caa],

11

Misumalpan

Mayangna [yan],

12

Mískito [miq],



12

Sign language

Honduras Sign Language [hds],

12

Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

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Language Code Index

This index gives an alphabetical listing of all 10 three-letter codes that are used in this work to

uniquely identify languages. The referenced page contains the main entry that describes the

language. All codes listed are part of the ISO 639-3 standard; see

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/

.

caa

Ch’orti’,

11

cab

Garifuna,

12

eng

English,

11

hds

Honduras Sign Language,

12

jic

Tol,

13

len



Lenca,

12

miq

Mískito,

12

pay

Pech,

13

spa



Spanish,

13

yan

Mayangna,

12

Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

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Language Name Index

This index lists every name that appears in the language listings as a primary or alternate name of

a language or dialect. The following abbreviations are used in the index entries: alt. ‘alternate

name for’; alt. dial. ‘alternate name for a dialect of’; dial. ‘primary name for a dialect of’; pej. alt.

‘pejorative alternate name for’; and pej. alt. dial. ‘pejorative alternate name for a dialect of’. Each

index entry resolves to the primary name for the language with which the indexed name is

associated, followed by square brackets containing the unique three-letter language code from ISO

639-3. The referenced page contains the main entry that describes the language. If the language

appears on a map, the entry for the primary name also lists page numbers for the maps on which

the language occurs.



Bay Islands English

dial. English [eng],

11

Black Carib

alt. Garifuna [cab],

12

Caribe

alt. Garifuna [cab],

12

Castellano

alt. Spanish [spa],

13

Central American Carib

alt. Garifuna [cab],

12

Ch’orti’

[caa],


11

,

14



Eastern Garifuna

dial. Garifuna [cab],

12

English

[eng],


11

,

14



Español

alt. Spanish [spa],

13

Garifuna

[cab],


12

,

14



Honduran Sign Language

alt. Honduras Sign

Language [hds],

12

Honduras Sign Language

[hds],

12

Inglés



alt. English [eng],

11

Island Carib

alt. Garifuna [cab],

12

Jicaque

alt. Tol [jic],

13

Lenca

[len],

12

Lengua de Señas Hondureñas



alt. Honduras

Sign Language [hds],

12

LESHO

alt. Honduras Sign Language [hds],

12

Marquito

alt. Mískito [miq],

12

Mayangna

[yan],


12

,

14



Mískito

[miq],


12

,

14



Mískitu

alt. Mískito [miq],

12

Mísquito

alt. Mískito [miq],

12

Mosquito

alt. Mískito [miq],

12

Paya

alt. Pech [pay],

13

Pech

[pay],


13

,

14



Seco

alt. Pech [pay],

13

Spanish

[spa],


13

Sumu

alt. Mayangna [yan],

12

Tol

[jic],


13

,

14



Tolpan

alt. Tol [jic],

13

Twahka

dial. Mayangna [yan],

12

Western Garifuna

dial. Garifuna [cab],

12

Xicaque

alt. Tol [jic],

13

Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras

21



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Document Outline

  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • How to Use This Digest
  • Country Overview
  • Language Status Profile
  • Statistical Summaries
    • Summary by language size
    • Summary by language status
    • Summary by language family
  • Alphabetical Listing of Languages
  • Language Map
  • Languages by Population
    • 1,000,000 to 9,999,999
    • 10,000 to 99,999
    • 100 to 999
    • 10 to 99
    • 0
    • Unknown
  • Languages by Status
    • 1 (National)
    • 5 (Developing)
    • 5 (Dispersed)
    • 8a (Moribund)
    • 8b (Nearly extinct)
    • 9 (Dormant)
  • Languages by Department
  • Languages by Family
  • Language Code Index
  • Language Name Index
  • Bibliography

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