Western Jicaque language explained

Western Jicaque
Also Known As:Jicaque of El Palmar
Nativename:Sula
Region:Honduras
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Hokan ?
Fam2:Jicaquean
Iso3:none
Glotto:west2777
Glottorefname:Western Jicaque
Era:attested 1890s

Western Jicaque, also known as Jicaque of El Palmar and Sula, now extinct, was a Jicaquean language spoken around El Palmar, Cortés Department, near Chamelecón in Honduras. It was attested in wordlists from the 1890s.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Campbell . Lyle . Oltrogge . David . 1980 . Proto-Tol (Jicaque) . International Journal of American Linguistics . 46 . 3 . 205–223 . 0020-7071.