List of endangered languages in Central America


An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" and "extinct":
Central America is a central geographic region of the Americas. It is variably defined either as the southern portion of North America, which connects with South America on the southeast, or as a region of the American continent in its own right.
CountryLanguageEthnonymSpeakersSource
Costa RicaBoruca5 women
30 to 35 nonfluent speakers

El SalvadorPipil20
196,576

GuatemalaItza'12
1,800

NicaraguaRama24
900

PanamaSan Miguel Creole French3