• There are a number of languages spoken in Honduras though the official language is Spanish. In Honduras, dozens of languages were spoken before the Spanish...
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    communities. Other languages spoken by some include Honduran sign language and Bay Islands Creole English. The main indigenous languages are: Garifuna (Arawakan)...
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    and in eastern Honduras. With around 150,000 speakers, Miskito is the most widely spoken of a family of languages of Nicaragua and Honduras that has come...
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  • Honduras. But by the beginning of the 20th century, only two languages of the family survived, Salvadoran Lenca or Potón and Honduran Lenca, which were described...
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    This article is about the ethnic groups and population of Honduras. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population...
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  • of Misumalpan languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classify the Sumu languages into a northern Mayangna, composed of the...
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  • Honduran Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas hondureña, LESHO) is the dominant sign language used in Honduras. American Sign Language is also used;...
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    BC. Several pre-Roman languages (also called Paleohispanic languages)—some distantly related to Latin as Indo-European languages, and some that are not...
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  • were deported by the British in 1797 to the north coast of Honduras from where the language and Garifuna people has since spread along the coast south...
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  • national language of Spanish, and therefore discourages the use and teaching of native languages such as Chʼorti. The Chʼortiʼ people in Honduras face homogenization...
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    Honduran Spanish is the Spanish language as spoken in the country of Honduras in Central America. Voseo is routinely used in Honduras. Honduran Spanish...
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  • from Honduras or of Honduran descent Honduran population, see Ethnicity in Honduras Honduran Spanish, the language spoken in Honduras Honduran cuisine...
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  • The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the Indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South...
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    The territory of current Honduras was inhabited by two culturally distinct peoples: the Maya civilization and the Nahua. Although the Mesoamerican influence...
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    Deportivo Honduras Progreso (commonly referred to as Honduras Progreso or simply Honduras), is a Honduran football club based in El Progreso, Honduras. It was...
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    Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population...
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    Jicaquean, also known as Tolan, is a small language family of Honduras. There are two attested Jicaquean languages, Tol (Eastern Jicaque) and Western Jicaque...
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    division in Honduras that possess local government. Each municipality has its own elected mayor as opposed to the appointed governors of departments....
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  • as Chorotega, is an extinct Oto-Manguean language ancestral to Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. Estimates of the ethnic population vary widely, from...
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    The list of colloquial expressions in Honduras (hondureñismos) are Spanish expressions that are unique to Honduras. In 1899, Alberto de Jesus Membreño [es]...
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    flag of Honduras consists of three equal horizontal stripes of cyan, white and cyan, with five cyan stars in a quincuncial pattern at the centre of the...
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    Hondurans (Spanish: Hondureños; also called catrachos) are the citizens of Honduras. Most Hondurans live in Honduras, although there is also a significant...
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  • Pech people (category Languages of Honduras)
    in north-eastern Honduras. According to a 2007 census conducted by indigenous organisations, 6,024 people self-identified as being of Pech descent. This...
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  • Bay Islands English (category Languages of Honduras)
    Paul; Simmons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. (2013). Ethnologue: Languages of Honduras (PDF). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. p. 10. Archived from the...
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    British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize...
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    closest parallels might be in the Tolan languages of Honduras. Granberry & Vescelius (2004) analyze the morphemes of tuob 'gold' and Quizquella 'very mountainous'...
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    Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos). Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras...
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    The Honduras national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Honduras) represents Honduras in men's international football. The team is governed...
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    Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, but including some in Honduras. Sumalpan languages: Sumo languages – some 8,000 speakers along the Huaspuc...
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    The economy of Honduras is based mostly on agriculture, which accounts for 14% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013. The country's leading export...
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