Languages of Honduras - Other Ethnicities

Other Ethnicities

Honduras hosts a significant Palestinian community (the vast majority of whom are Christian Arabs). These Arab-Hondurans are sometimes called "Turcos", because they arrived in Honduras using Turkish travel documents, as their homeland was then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. The Palestinians arrived in the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing themselves especially in the city of San Pedro Sula.

There is also an East Asian community that is primarily Chinese descent, and to a lesser extent Japanese. Some Korean, Ryukyuan, Vietnamese and Filipino peoples also make up a small percentage due to their arrival to Honduras in the 1980s and 1990s. There are also an estimated 1000 Sumos (or Mayangnas) that live in Honduras.

A Jewish minority population (from Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Russia) is also present in San Pedro Sula.

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