At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the use of Salvadoran Lenca began to decline; in the 1970s, in
Chilanga, a Salvadoran Lenca speaker was found. In the end of the nineties,
Consuelo Roque, a
linguist at the
University of El Salvador (UES), found
Mario Salvador Hernández from
Guatajiagua, a semi-speaker who learned the language from his grandmother, and both would write a learning book titled in spanish:
Poton piau, nuestra lengua Potón; research in 2004 by the
University of El Salvador recorded 380 words, five vowels and 16 consonants, alternation between “g” and “k”, with reduplication to create plurals from singular forms. Currently in El Salvador there are rehabilitation projects for the Salvadoran Lenca to prevent its extinction. ==Notes==