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LencaLanguage

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lenca language

The LencaLanguage is a language of unknown classification from Honduras. SIL code: LEN. ISO 639-2: cai. Population: Only a few speakers out of 100,000 or more ethnic population (1993 Ramon D. Rivas). Region: La Paz, Intibuca, Lempira, Comayagua, Santa Barbara, Valle and Francisco Morozan departments. Also spoken in El Salvador. Comments: Some consider it to be Macro-Chibchan. The dialect in El Salvador is different from Honduras. Bilingualism in Spanish. Nearly extinct. Also spoken in: El Salvador. (Language name: LENCA.) Population: (36,858 in ethnic group in El Salvador, 1987, or .6% of the population, 1982 Barrett). Comments: A different dialect of Lenca is in Honduras. Some classify this as Macro-Chibchan. Bilingualism in Spanish. Nearly extinct.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	spoken human language	A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
	unclassified spoken language	An UnclassifiedSpokenLanguage is a SpokenHumanLanguage of unknown relationship to other SpokenHumanLanguages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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