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Critically Endangered

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~97?

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Certainly fewer than 100 speakers; perhaps only semi-speakers remain, though a few of them are quite fluent.

Year of info

2014

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El Salvador

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About 3,000 children are learning Pipil as a second language.

Year of info

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.

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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El Salvador

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Departmental Directorate of Education

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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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200,000

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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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2007

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

20

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Ethnic Population

196,576

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20 (1987). Ethnic population: 11,100 (2005 census) (2013).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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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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Spanish

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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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~200

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All speakers

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Year of info

1985

Location and Context

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El Salvador

Coordinates

13.721709,-89.721314

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2005

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13.8333333333,-89.5833333333

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  1. 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
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  2. The Pipil Language of El Salvador
    Campbell, Lyle. 1985. "The Pipil Language of El Salvador." 1: Mouton de Gruyter.
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    Alan 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
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  7. El Salvador Social Protection Project
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  9. El Pipil de la Región de los Itzalcos
    Arauz, Prospero. 1960. "El Pipil De La Región De Los Itzalcos." 268. San Salvador, El Salvador: Departamento Editorial del Ministerio de Cultura.
  10. Idioma Pipil; o, nahuat de Cuzcatlán y Tunalán hoy república de El Salvador en la América Central
    Arauz, Prospero. 1937. "Idioma Pipil; O, Nahuat De Cuzcatlán Y Tunalán Hoy República De El Salvador En La América Central." 160. San Salvador, El Salvador: La Unión.
  11. El Pipil de Izālco
    Masin, Inés. 1926. "El Pipil De Izālco." In Revista de etnologia, arqueologia y linguistica, 1 , no. 3-4: 259-264.
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    Campbell, Lyle. 1985. "The Pipil Language of El Salvador." 1: Mouton de Gruyter.
  13. Frases del Pipil
    Arauz, Próspero. 1926. "Frases Del Pipil." In Revista de etnologia, arqueologia y linguistica, 1 , no. 3-4: 211-212.