primer as a reference), points out that (translated into English): "Today no one knows how to speak Lenca, although certain individuals have memories of--or have learned--some fragments of that now lost language. This type of partial knowledge is not even remotely close, in any case that we have been able to verify, to a real mastery of the historical language, whose disappearance dates back to the mid-twentieth century...".

While in the case of Honduran Lenca, the American linguist Alan R. King