Image: Pueblos Indigenas antes de la conquista El Salvador

Description: Approximate distribution of the Indigenous peoples that inhabited the territory of El Salvador shortly before the Spanish conquest: Nahuas Lencas Kakawiras or Cacaoperas Xincas Mayans Chorti Mayans poqomam ChorotegasNotes: - Some images also include the Alaguilac and Mixe peoples, this is due to misinterpretations in the 20th century of the indigenous people of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán (the case of Alaguilac, which was considered a Nahua language or dialect; for which reason Jorge Larde y Larín, in the «Toponimia Nahuat del El Salvador Occidental» (1977), considered that it was a combination of Nahuat and Chorti) and Conguaco (in Guatemala, near the border of El Salvador; whose indigenous people, called in the populuca sources, were erroneously considered mixes; and authors such as Jorge Larde and Larín in the work mentioned above, they considered that for this reason that language was spoken in El Salvador instead of Xinca), according to Lyle Campbell (1979 and 1997) Alaguilac would be a language related to Xinca and the Populuca of Conguaco a Xinca language (See Rogers, Chris (2016) The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages).

- The data a out of the Xinca as an indigenous language of current El Salvador is ambiguous, the main populations of this ethnic group were found in the Guatemalan territory bordering El Salvador; its inclusion is due to the few data available from Mopicalco (in the territory of present-day San Francisco Menéndez, Department of Ahuachapán), including ceramic analysis of that region that shows that by the late postclassic (1200 to 1525 AD) its population had strong ties to the Pacific coast of Guatemala (see: Moraga, Regina; Mencos, Elisa; Costa, Philippe; Perrot-Minnot, Sebastién (2010). «La Relación entre Cara Sucia (El Salvador) y la zona de Cotzumalguapa (Guatemala): la perspectiva desde un análisis cerámico)».
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