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Language data for El Salvador

The 2007 census of El Salvador records 8 main languages spoken in the country besides Spanish, which is the official language. According to the 2007 census, some Indigenous groups speak their own languages, such as Cacaopera (spoken by 0.07% of the population) and Nawat (0.06%). Other sources suggest that Poqoman is among the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the country, while Cacaopera would actually be extinct, and we have been unable to verify these discrepancies. The census also indicates that Q'eqchi' is spoken by Indigenous immigrants of Guatemala and Belize living in El Salvador. The wording of questions asked in the census makes it impossible to verify whether any sections of the population are monolingual in languages other than Spanish.

Like other regions of Central and South America, Salvadorans use voseo. This refers to the use of the pronoun vos for the second person singular, instead of tú. The form of Spanish used in El Salvador is called Caliche, which is considered informal.

The literacy rate in El Salvador in 2007 was 81%, and slightly lower for women (79%) than men (83%).

Explore the data by municipality here.

Download this dataset here.

These maps and datasets are published with funding from the World Food Programme.

Curated datasets
Available on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

Other sources of language data
Ethnologue
Glottolog

Tools
Why we need to collect data on the languages of crisis-affected people (PDF)

Rapid Guide to Localizing and Translating Survey Tools (EN, FR, PT)

Questions to use to collect data for your own language map

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Maps and resources:


Languages other than Spanish in El Salvador: Static (EN)

Static map highlighting the most common languages besides Spanish spoken in El Salvador. Data is from the 2007 census.


Languages other than Spanish in El Salvador: Static (ES)

Static map highlighting the most common languages besides Spanish spoken in El Salvador. Data is from the 2007 census.


Languages of El Salvador: Interactive (EN)

Interactive map showing the number of speakers and geographic spread of different languages in El Salvador. Data is from the 2007 census.

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