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The Lenca or Lepawiran "people of the jaguar" are from present day southwest Honduras and eastern
Since pre-European times the Lencas occupied various areas of what is now known as
El Salvador
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in Central America
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. They once spoke many Dialects such as Chilanga Chilanga may refer to:
*Chilanga, El Salvador, a municipality in the Morazán Department of El Salvador
*Chilanga (Lusaka), Zambia, a town 20 km south of Zambia's Capital Lusaka
*Chilanga (constituency)
Chilanga is a constituency of the Nati ...
, Putun, Kotik etc. Although there were different dialects, they understood and coexisted with each other. These dialects are now nearly extinct. In Honduras, the Lenca are the largest tribal group, with an estimated population of more than 450,000.
The pre-Conquest
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Lenca had frequent contact with various Mayan
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* Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
* Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
* Mayan languages, language family spoken ...
groups as well as other sovereign tribal people of the territory of present-day Mexico and Central America. The origin of Lenca populations has been a source of ongoing debate among anthropologists and historians. Research has been directed to gaining archaeological evidence of the pre-colonial
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History
Pre-European era
Since pre-European times the Lencas occupied various areas of what is now known as