Social:Lacandon language
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Short description: Mayan language spoken of Mexico
| Lacandon | |
|---|---|
| Jach-tʼaan | |
| Pronunciation | [xatʃ tʼaːn] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | 1,000 Lacandon people (2000) |
Native speakers | 770 (2020 census)e25 |
Mayan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lac |
| Glottolog | laca1243[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 [pʰ] | t [tʰ] | k [kʰ] | 7 [ʔ] | |
| ejective | pʼ [pʼ] | tʼ [tʼ] | kʼ [kʼ] | |||
| implosive | bʼ [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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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