Lenca
Speech parts
1. Lenca - Noun
2. Lenca - Proper noun
Meaning
Lenca pl (plural only)
A Mesoamerican indigenous people of southwestern Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America.
Lenca
A nearly extinct language once spoken by these people.
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Pre-Columbian main Sophisticated civilization in El Salvador dates to its settlement by the indigenous Lenca people ; theirs was the first and the oldest indigenous civilization to settle in El Salvador.
Antu Silan Ulap eventually handed over control of the Lenca resistance to Lempira (also called Empira).
The first indigenous people to have contact with the Spanish were the Lenca of eastern El Salvador.
The remaining Lenca forces retreated into the hills.