Editing Guanche language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct language of the Canary Islands}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Guanche
| states           = Spain ([[Canary Islands]])
| region           = Canary Islands
| ethnicity        = [[Guanches]]
| extinct          = 17th century<ref name=Kossman/>
| ref              = 
| familycolor      = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2             = [[Berber languages|Berber]]?
| iso3             = gnc
| glotto           = guan1277
| glottorefname    = Guanche
| linglist         = gnc
| fam1             = [[Afro-Asiatic]]?
}}

'''Guanche''' is an [[extinct language]] or [[dialect continuum]] that was spoken by the [[Guanches]] of the [[Canary Islands]] until the 16th or 17th century. It died out after the [[conquest of the Canary Islands]] as the Guanche ethnic group was assimilated into the dominant [[Spanish culture]]. The Guanche language is known today through sentences and individual words that were recorded by early geographers, as well as through several place-names and some Guanche words that were retained in the [[Canarian Spanish|Canary Islanders' Spanish]].