Xincan languages

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Xincan
Geographic distribution	Guatemala
Ethnicity	16,200 Xinca people (2003 census)
Extinct	1970s (3 semi-speakers reported)
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions	Yupiltepeque † Jumaytepeque (†) Chiquimulilla (†) Guazacapán (†) Sinacantán †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xin
Glottolog	xinc1237
Geographic distribution of the Xincan languages. Solid blue is the recorded range, transparent is the range attested by toponyms.

Xinca (or Xinka, Sinca, or Szinca) is a small extinct family of Mesoamerican languages, formerly regarded as a single language isolate, once spoken by the Indigenous Xinca people in southeastern Guatemala, much of El Salvador, and parts of Honduras.

They have also historically been referred to as Popoluca, or Popoluca-Xinca, Popoluca being a Nahuatl term for unintelligible speech.^[1]