Social:Lacandon language

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Short description: Mayan language spoken of Mexico
Lacandon
Jach-tʼaan
Pronunciation[xatʃ tʼaːn]
Native toMexico
RegionChiapas
Ethnicity1,000 Lacandon people (2000)
Native speakers
770 (2020 census)e25
Mayan
  • Yucatecan
    • Yucatec–Lacandon
      • Lacandon
Language codes
ISO 639-3lac
Glottologlaca1243[1]

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Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas)[2] is a Mayan language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.[3] Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá.[4]

Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach tʼaan or Hach tʼan. Most Lacandon people speak Lacandon Maya. Most also speak Spanish.

Phonology

The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Laryngeal
Nasal m [m] n [n]
Plosive aspirated p [] t [] k [] 7 [ʔ]
ejective [] [] []
implosive [ɓ]
Affricate aspirated tz [tsʰ] ch [tʃʰ]
ejective tzʼ [tsʼ] chʼ [tʃʼ]
Fricative s [s] x [ʃ] h [ʜ]
Approximant l [l] y [j] w [ʋ]
Flap r [ɾ]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Lacandon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/laca1243. 
  2. Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). "Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas - lacandón". http://www.inali.gob.mx/catalogo2007/html/v_lacandon.html. 
  3. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
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