Language name and locationː Lenca, Honduras, El Salvador [Refer to Ethnologue]
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1. eta |
2. pé |
3. lágua |
4. eslea |
5. say |
6. guilli |
7. guisca |
8. tefca |
9. calapa |
10. isis |
Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, The Author of the website "Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages", Chicago, USA, October 7 2023. 提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Mark Rosenfelder, 2023 年 10 月 7 日. |
Other comments: The Lenca, also known as Lepa Wiran, meaning “Jaguar People” or “People of The Jaguar” are a recently extinct (2007) Indigenous people from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They speak various dialects of the Lenca language such as Chilanga, Putun (Potón), and Kotik. Although the Lenca speak different dialects, they’ve always understood and coexisted with each other. In Honduras, the Lenca are the largest tribal group, with an estimated population of more than 450,000.
There are two attested Lencan
languages, both extinct (Campbell 1997:167).
Campbell (2012)
acknowledges that these claims of connection between Lencan, Misumalpan,
and Chibchan have not yet been proved systematically, but he notes that
Constenla-Umaña (2005) "presented evidence to support a relationship
with two neighboring families [of languages]: Misumalpan and Lencan,
which constitute the Lenmichí Micro-Phylum. According to [Constenla-Umaña's
study (2005)], the Lenmichi Micro-Phylum first split into Proto-Chibchan
and Proto-Misulencan, the common intermediate ancestor of the Lencan and
the Misumalpan languages. This would have happened around 9,726 years
before the present or 7,720 B.C. (the average of the time depths between
the Chibchan languages and the Misulencan languages)...The respective
subancestors of the Lencan and the Misumalpan languages would have
separated around 7,705 before the present (5,069 B.C.), and Paya and the
other intermediate ancestors of all the other Chibchan languages would
have separated around 6,682 (4,676 B.C.)." Lenca has only recorded traditional numerals from 1 to 10 years ago, not sure if they were used a traditional decimal or vigesimal system before, New data for numbers after ten is required. |
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