Lenca

American  

[leng-kuh] / ˈlɛŋ kə /

noun

• Lencas,
  plural
• Lenca
  plural

1. a member of an Indigenous people of El Salvador and central Honduras.

2. the language of the Lenca.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Lenca or their language.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Lenca
  plural
• Lencas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Lenca

First recorded in 1850–55; from Lenca, a self-designation

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Lenca Lencas

The dam would have flooded large areas of land and cut off the supply of water, food and medicine for hundreds of the indigenous Lenca people in western Honduras.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022

Lenca activists said the project would cause major disruptions to their water and food supply and that the builders didn't consult the area's indigenous groups.

From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2021

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Berta Ceaceres, an indigenous Lenca woman, campaigned to preserve her people’s environment, threatened by a hydroelectric project.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2016

“What we are up against is a declared war on the Lenca people,” said Copinh leader Tomas Gomez, who was named as a co-defendant along with Caceres in the court documents.

From Time ● May 3, 2016

The race that inhabited this region were the Lenca Indians, often mentioned in the accounts given by the missionaries of their early expeditions into Honduras.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

Her most recent cause was a major dam project, sponsored by the Honduran government with Chinese financing, that the Lencas said would ruin their ancestral waterways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2016

In many districts the Indians are known as Lencas, a generic name which includes several tribes akin to the Mayans of Guatemala.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various