Pipil
Nahuat; Nawat; Nahuate; Náwat; Náhuat
Uto-Aztecan; Southern Uto-Aztecan; Nahuan
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Certainly fewer than 100 speakers; perhaps only semi-speakers remain, though a few of them are quite fluent.
2014
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El Salvador
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About 3,000 children are learning Pipil as a second language.
2012
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El Salvador
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Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Department of Sonsonate in Western El Salvador
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Living Tongues Institute; Don Bosco University
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Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Department of Sonsonate in Western El Salvador
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With assistance from The Living Tongues Institute, Carlos Enrique Cortez will be video recording "Pipil culture, such as natural medicines, traditions, traditional games, agricultural practices, and childhood songs. This content will be available for those wanting to learn the language, as well was to document these important pieces of Pipil culture."
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About 200 families speak the language.
2005
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El Salvador
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Departmental Directorate of Education
CONCULTURA; CCNIS
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a program for the ‘Revitalization of Nahuat-Pipil language’, has been promoted in five schools in Izalco and Nahuizalco, department of Sonsonate. A series of texts and materials have been developed in Nahuat, as the initial step towards a sought intercultural bilingual education program.
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"This language once thought extinct, has been described in Campbell (1985), who unexpectedly found about twenty speakers thirty years ago, in the course of a survey of dying languages of Central America." (2007:70)
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20 (1987). Ethnic population: 11,100 (2005 census) (2013).
2009
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El Salvador
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Municipio of Dolores, Ocotepeque Department, near the El Salvador border.
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Municipio of Dolores, Ocotepeque Department, near the El Salvador border.
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2004
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Instituto de la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat (IRIN); Seminario Lingüistico de Náhuat (SLN); Tajkwiluyan Ipal ne Taketzalis (the office for the Nawat language)
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The Nawat Linguistic Seminar (Seminario Lingüistico de Náhuat--SLN) is working on a text-based corpus of Nawat, a lexical database, and workbooks for language-learners.
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1985
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- IRIN Internacional ~ IRIN International websiteAlan R. King, Monica Ward and the IRIN Institution. 2004. "IRIN Internacional ~ IRIN International Website." Online: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/irin/index.htm.http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/irin/index.htm
- A Video Library for Successor Pipil GenerationEddie Avila. 2012. "A Video Library For Successor Pipil Generation." Online: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2012/08/27/languages-a-video-library-for-successor-pipil-generation/.http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2012/08/27/languages-a-video-library-for-successor-pipil-generation/
- El Salvador Social Protection ProjectWorld Bank. 2005. "El Salvador Social Protection Project." Online: http://tinyurl.com/elsalvadorlanguages.http://tinyurl.com/elsalvadorlanguages
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