Honduras

Spanish

[spa] 1 (National). Statutory national language (1982, Constitution, Article 6). 9,159,000 in Honduras, all users. L1 users: 9,040,000 in Honduras (Instituto Cervantes 2019). L2 users: 119,000 (Instituto Cervantes 2019).

5 (Dispersed)

English

[eng] 5* (Dispersed). 9,000 in Honduras (2015 J. Leclerc). Also 13,000 speakers of Bay Island Creole English (2015 J. Leclerc).

5 (Developing)

Honduran Sign Language

[hds] 5 (Developing). 40,000 (2021 DBS/DOOR/SIL). Estimated 30,000–60,000 deaf signers, assuming 0.3%–0.6% of the total population. Other estimates: 34,800 (2008 WFD), 18,000–70,000 (Williams 2010:5).

Mayangna

[yan] 5 (Developing). 700 in Honduras (1997 SIL). Ethnic population: 2,690 (2013 census).

Mískito

[miq] 5 (Developing). 29,000 in Honduras (Rivas 1993). Ethnic population: 80,000 (2013 census).

6b (Threatened)

Garifuna

[cab] 6b (Threatened). 43,100 in Honduras (2013 census), based on ethnicity. 100 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 100,000 (2021 J. Leclerc). Total users in all countries: 119,400.

7 (Shifting)

Tol

[jic] 7 (Shifting). 300 (Yasugi 2007). Ethnic population: 19,000 (2013 census).

8a (Moribund)

Pech

[pay] 8a (Moribund). 300 (Yasugi 2007). Ethnic population: 6,020 (2013 census).

9 (Dormant)

Ch’orti’

[caa] 9 (Dormant). No known L1 speakers in Honduras. Ethnic population: 33,300 (2013 census).

Lenca

[len] 9 (Dormant). No known L1 speakers. Last fluent speaker probably died by the 1970s (Campbell et al 1978). Some semi-speakers (Adelaar 2007). Ethnic population: 454,000 (2013 census).

Unestablished

Arabic, South Levantine Spoken

[ajp] Unestablished. 32,000 in Honduras (2021 Joshua Project), based on ethnicity.

Armenian, Western

[hyw] Unestablished. 1,300 in Honduras (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001).

Chinese, Yue

[yue] Unestablished. 1,000 in Honduras (1999).

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